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Cronjob Monitoring Script #215

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This script was born out of a desire to monitor and alert on cronjobs using Prometheus and Alertmanager.

This script was inspired by https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/

As far as I'm aware there isn't another facility for exposing metrics related to this in Node Exporter.

This script receives two arguments, the description of the cronjob as a string and the exit status of the previous command. It prints the metric to stdout.

Usage:

<command> ; cronjob "<description>" $?

Example crontab entry:

* * * * * echo "Hello world!"; cronjob "greeting" $? | sponge /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom

Example textfile:

[vagrant@rocky8 ~]$ cat /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom 
# HELP node_cronjob_status Last exit code of cronjob.
# TYPE node_cronjob_status gauge
node_cronjob_status{user="vagrant", description="greeting"} 0

Alex Kraker added 3 commits May 11, 2024 10:54
This script was born out of a desire to monitor and alert on cronjobs using
Prometheus and Alertmanager.

This script was inspired by https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/

As far as I'm aware there isn't another facility for exposing metrics related
to this in Node Exporter.

This script receives two arguments, the description of the cronjob as a string
and the exit status of the previous command. It prints the metric to stdout.

Usage:

```bash
<command> ; cronjob "<description>" $?
```

Example crontab entry:

```
* * * * * echo "Hello world!"; cronjob "greeting" $? | sponge /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom
```

Example textfile:

```
[vagrant@rocky8 ~]$ cat /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom
node_cronjob_status{user="vagrant", description="greeting"} 0
```

Signed-off-by: Alex Kraker <[email protected]>
Give this script a more descriptive name. This script will be seen in
crontab files and this will be more descriptive of what the script is
doing.

Signed-off-by: Alex Kraker <[email protected]>
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