What is the best way to run scheduled jobs?

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I'm currently using cron, but it does not give back an error signal and I don't know how to keep track if it worked.

Ideally I would want a solution that allowed me to create a dashboard to see if my robots are still working.

I know js and python

Thanks!

levelsio · Accepted Answer

Add a Telegram webhook if it errors so you get a message sent

levelsio · Answer

Yep, I'd think less about these kinds of things and if you're doing them properly or not personally and just make it work and ship it

Fernando · Answer

Thanks, this looks awesome

Peter · Answer

If you are familiar with JS. Have a look at Google Apps Scripts. You can setup triggers. And it's free, well free: you need to have a Google Account

Click Edit > All your triggers. There you can setup time driven triggers.

Jankees van Woezik · Answer

I use http://deadmanssnitch.com for this purpose. I call them after every successful cron. If that doesn't happen for X amount of time I get a notification.

Fernando · Answer

Thanks! 
So I am going in the right direction using cron?

AJ Villalobos · Answer

If you are on rails, you can use the whenever gem https://github.com/javan/whenever, it can send email for the output of the task

Brahma Reddy Chilakala · Answer

If you don't mind paying, https://cronhub.io/ would solve your problem.

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