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Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by encoderer »

leetrout wrote: post #10
encoderer wrote: post #5

I’ll give credit where it’s due, Dead Mans Snitch inspired us to build Cronitor, but I’m pretty sure this is in maintenance mode. It’s a great proof of concept that something like this should exist that gives developers observability for their cron jobs and background tasks but they seemed to have stopped working on it, so we started in 2014 and have shipped about every week since. Ultimately, we believe you can’t tr…

I wish y'all would own the terraform provider directly. It seems to have lagged behind.

Thanks for letting me know. We can prioritize that.

We took over most of the open source SDKs last year and then all of a sudden felt the burden of 5 new codebases so we cooled it for a bit.

This year we have been rolling out deeper SDKs with auto provisioning that in some cases might eliminate the need for terraform - Eg k8s, sidekiq, airflow and celery

Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by kayson »

You can also use Healthchecks[0] or Uptime-Kuma[1] both of which are open source and self-hostable!

I've been using both for a while and they're great. Healtchecks has first class integration in borgmatic[3], and is in my opinion the better choice for cron jobs. Uptime-Kuma has a really nice interface and also supports checking hosts/services via ping or http request. It also supports "push" requests a la healthchecks but there's a weird race condition bug that makes it misfire (PR is waiting to be merged). It also has status dashboards with incidents.

[0] https://healthchecks.io/

[1] https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

[3] https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by gaffneyc »

encoderer wrote: post #5

I’ll give credit where it’s due, Dead Mans Snitch inspired us to build Cronitor, but I’m pretty sure this is in maintenance mode. It’s a great proof of concept that something like this should exist that gives developers observability for their cron jobs and background tasks but they seemed to have stopped working on it, so we started in 2014 and have shipped about every week since. Ultimately, we believe you can’t tr…

Lead developer behind Dead Man’s Snitch here :wave:

We are definitely not in “maintenance mode” and have a lot of things in the works. With the last couple of years being what they’ve been things have often taken longer than we’d like but they’re certainly in motion.

edit: fixed tpyo

Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by gaffneyc »

UncleEntity wrote: post #8
encoderer wrote: post #5

I’ll give credit where it’s due, Dead Mans Snitch inspired us to build Cronitor, but I’m pretty sure this is in maintenance mode. It’s a great proof of concept that something like this should exist that gives developers observability for their cron jobs and background tasks but they seemed to have stopped working on it, so we started in 2014 and have shipped about every week since. Ultimately, we believe you can’t tr…

Their app was last released 5 months ago and the change log says they are working on adding new features. I think maybe simple and working is sometimes Good Enough™ and you don’t need weekly updates to prove a project is still alive.

Simple and reliable take a surprising amount of time to get right. We would rather move slowly and cautiously because we have thousands of operations folks who could have a really bad time if we rush something that causes folks to get paged at 2am or lose trust in the system.

Also, we’re bad at talking about the work we do. It’s the classic trap a lot of engineering founders fall into.

Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by Terry_Roll »

gaffneyc wrote: post #14
encoderer wrote: post #5

I’ll give credit where it’s due, Dead Mans Snitch inspired us to build Cronitor, but I’m pretty sure this is in maintenance mode. It’s a great proof of concept that something like this should exist that gives developers observability for their cron jobs and background tasks but they seemed to have stopped working on it, so we started in 2014 and have shipped about every week since. Ultimately, we believe you can’t tr…

Lead developer behind Dead Man’s Snitch here :wave: We are definitely not in “maintenance mode” and have a lot of things in the works. With the last couple of years being what they’ve been things have often taken longer than we’d like but they’re certainly in motion. edit: fixed tpyo

> Lead developer behind Dead Man’s Snitch here :wave:

Class! ;)

Re: Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

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Post by gaffneyc »

spicybright wrote: post #18

$5/mo to monitor 3 cron jobs? And $50/mo if you want any kind of notifications from it? Am I reading that right?

Close but not quite.

1 is always free (includes email notifications)

$5/month for 3 with email notifications

$19/month adds integrations for notifications through services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Squadcast (among others).

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