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Dead Man's Switch Monitoring for Scripts & Pipelines

A dead man's switch fires when something stops happening — perfect for jobs that should run every night but never send email when cron dies quietly.

CronCraft implements this with expected schedules + grace and optional /fail pings when your script knows it broke. Deeper dive: dead man's switch pattern explained.

Silent failure is the default

Most teams discover a dead cron weeks later. Pair operational checks with preventing silent cron failures.

vs uptime monitors

Uptime checks watch URLs. CronCraft watches your batch proving it ran — closer to heartbeat monitoring than to synthetic HTTP probes.