Cron health

Skill LukeJMadden/Veltrix-skills/skills/operations/cron-health

16 business operations skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and AI agents. Finance, sales, strategy, customer success, product, procurement plus 13 task profiles. Built by Veltrix Collective.

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Scheduled task monitoring skill. Use when checking cron job health, diagnosing missed jobs, or setting up monitoring.

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Monitor scheduled tasks and ensure nothing runs silently broken.

What to Track Per Job

Field	Description
Name	Job identifier
Schedule	Cron expression
Last run	Timestamp of most recent execution
Last status	Success or failure
Duration	How long it took
Output	Key metrics or error message

Health Check Pattern

For each scheduled job:

Has it run in the expected window? (compare schedule vs last_run)
Did it succeed? (check status)
Was the duration normal? (compare vs 7-day average)
Did it produce expected output? (records_processed > 0)

Alert Conditions

Missed run — job didn't execute within 2× its scheduled interval
Consecutive failures — same job failed 3+ times in a row
Duration anomaly — took 3× longer than average
Zero output — ran successfully but processed 0 records (may indicate upstream data issue)

Daily Summary Format

Cron jobs (24h): X ok, Y failed
  Failed:
  • job_name: error description
  Slow:
  • job_name: took Xms (avg: Yms)

Safety: Before Restart

Before restarting any service, check:

Are any cron jobs currently running?
Are any scheduled to run in the next 5 minutes?
If yes → defer the restart until the window is clear
If no → safe to restart