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Cron Watchdog

Monitors cron jobs for failures, hangs, and missed executions with instant alerts.

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About this skill

Cron Watchdog wraps your existing crontab entries to track every execution. It records start time, end time, exit code, stdout, and stderr for each run, building a baseline profile of normal behavior per job.

When a job fails (non-zero exit), runs longer than its historical p95 duration, or simply doesn't execute on schedule, the skill sends an alert to Slack, PagerDuty, or a generic webhook. It distinguishes between one-off failures and recurring breakage, escalating only when a job fails N times consecutively.

The skill requires no changes to your existing cron commands — it works by wrapping each command with a lightweight shell shim that reports telemetry to a local SQLite database. A companion `/cron-report` command generates a summary of all monitored jobs and their health status.

Key features

  • Zero-config cron wrapping via shell shims
  • Local SQLite telemetry store
  • Consecutive failure escalation thresholds
  • PagerDuty, Slack, and webhook alerting

Permissions

  • Execute commands
  • Read files
  • Write files
  • HTTP requests
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Version2.1.0
Last updated2026-03-01
Downloads870
Created2025-10-05
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