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Monitoring Cron Jobs With One curl

Published: April 12th 2026 Tags: heartbeats, cron, devops, monitoring Your backup cron job ran successfully last Tuesday. You're fairly sure it ran Wednesday. Thursday? You'd have to check the logs — assuming they weren't rotated. This is the silent failure problem. Cron jobs don'

Upwatch vs Uptime Kuma: Cloud-Hosted vs Self-Hosted Monitoring

The Honest Comparison Uptime Kuma is a great open-source project. I used it for years before building Upwatch. This isn't a hit piece — it's a breakdown of the tradeoffs so you can pick the right tool for your situation. The Core Difference Uptime Kuma is self-hosted.