Monitor a scheduled job (cron) with check-ins
A cron job that silently stops running is the outage you find out about last. Check-ins tell Vakt360 when a job starts and finishes, so a missed run is flagged immediately.
Send a check-in when your job runs
Using the Sentry SDK's check-in API, report when the job starts and when it finishes. The first check-in creates the monitor automatically, with no manual setup in the dashboard first.
tsconst checkInId = Sentry.captureCheckIn({ monitorSlug: "nightly-billing", status: "in_progress", }); // ... run the job ... Sentry.captureCheckIn({ checkInId, monitorSlug: "nightly-billing", status: "ok", // or "error" if it failed });Let the monitor auto-create
Vakt360 creates the monitor the first time your job checks in, and learns its expected interval over the first few runs to avoid false alarms.
Confirm the expected schedule
Check the monitor's expected schedule so a check-in that doesn't arrive in its window is treated as missed, whether the job crashed, hung or never ran.
Get alerted on a miss
Add an alert for missed check-ins so a silent failure reaches your team. Missed-run alerts route through the same email, Slack and webhook channels as your errors.
See it next to your errors
Cron incidents sit in the same timeline as the errors happening at the same moment, so you can see cause and effect in one place.
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