I've been burned by bad cron monitoring many times in the past. Short answer: check out https://cronitor.io/ https://cronitor.io/. Basically, finish every cron

I've been burned by bad cron monitoring many times in the past. Short answer: check out https://cronitor.io/ https://cronitor.io/. Basically, finish every cron job by telling their server that the job finished. It's good enough monitoring for most cases.