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A comment on Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks.

Re:Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks by KaiserPro on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:38AM (#7546103)
as much as I hate to admit it, jenkins makes a superb replacement for cron.

It keeps a history, has excellent error handling capabilities, and can scale quite well.

also the integration with git and the like makes updating jobs super easy.

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Re:Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks by khill on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:59AM (#7547257)
Hudson/Jenkins works well for us. We've moved all our scheduling jobs out of cron and other uglier options (like maestro) into Hudson.

In addition to sending emails when things break, it can also post to our Twitter feed and send SMS alerts.

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