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Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
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Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#2Regarding monitoring: I've come to rely on healthchecks.io to ensure my cron jobs when like I expect.
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#3How long of a job do you need to run?
We use Azure Timer Functions and/or Logic Apps to run and monitor our jobs. All of those languages are supported.
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#4Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#5A little overkill, but airflow. Free, has history, language agnostic, retries, can handle a large number of time based tasks.
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#6Many teams use Rundeck for scheduled jobs and runbook automation. It gives you a nice UI and a measure of governance around the process. https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/learning/
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#7I run cron jobs using sidekiq-cron and monitor them using https://cronitor.io.
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#8crontab to run them
dogwrap (command-line tool for datadog) to monitor them
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#9Rundeck is a pretty good tool to schedule, save logs and the like.
At my work we have a rundeck server connect via ssh to differents vm and execute the script there, you can configure alarms, parallel execution, plenty of steps it's pretty good you should try it out.
Re: Ask HN: What tech to run and monitor CRON jobs (Python, Node.js, C#)?
#10There are SaaSes for this, like https://cronhub.io