Server resources, cron jobs and heartbeats: how to watch the background work your site depends on and get alerted when a scheduled job does not run.
Monitoring 7 min read
Good server alert thresholds catch a filling disk or a memory leak early without paging anyone for a harmless spike. Starting values for CPU, load, RAM, swap, disk, network and reboots.
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Cron jobs fail silently. A heartbeat monitor alerts you when a scheduled job does not check in on time. How heartbeats work, how to add one to a crontab and which settings to choose.
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A cron expression is five fields that say when a job runs. The syntax, special characters and @daily shortcuts, ready-to-use examples and the timezone and PATH mistakes that break jobs.
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A practical guide to server monitoring: which metrics to track, how to set useful alerts, how to read logs and how to fix the most common server problems.
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Backups, imports and cleanups run on cron, and they fail silently. Common causes of missed cron jobs, how to troubleshoot them and how to get alerted when a job does not run.
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