I run this as a combination of monit timestamp checking and stdout to a file. Is there anything this does that I cannot do this without monit? e.g. MAILTO=ema

I run this as a combination of monit timestamp checking and stdout to a file. Is there anything this does that I cannot do this without monit? e.g. MAILTO=email@ops.com 1 23 * * * /home/cron/backup.sh 1> /backups/backup and monit doing a check file backup with path /backups/backup if timestamp > 24 hours then alert This way I am emailed when there is an error with the backup script, otherwise things continue as it is.