check cron jobs
At 2:47 a.m., an alert says a backup didn't arrive. The first check shows the cron entry is still present, the server is healthy, and the script returns success when run manually. Then someone discovers that the backup hasn't run in three weeks. That
cron job log
A backup job can appear healthy while producing no useful evidence at all. The scheduler may record that it launched the command, while the command itself fails under cron's restricted environment, writes output to an unexpected location, or sends diagnostics to a mail system nobody monitors. When the
cron jobs not running
The report was supposed to arrive before the team's first meeting. It didn't. The queue is growing, the data is stale, and someone insists the cron job “just stopped running” even though the server itself looks healthy. That symptom sends operators toward the wrong question. A