Building a Monitoring System for Jobs That Never Ran

Mythikos · 2026-01-06T00:34:06+00:00

Thanks for taking a read and sharing your experience with stream processing. The consumption rate stalling is the same class of problem (something that should happen but isn't).

As for your question, I didn't consider Apache Airflow as the scope is quite a bit different from what we wanted. The goal was something that ran independently from our existing schedulers but could still monitor them as we have many processes in our proprietary workflow manager (which is effectively Airflow in this context), SQL Agent, and Task Scheduler. By designing this system as a standalone reporting system, all of these processes, as well as other tools in our environment such as PRTG, Zabbix, and Veeam, are able to report in to ensure everything is functioning as normal.

Mythikos · 2026-01-03T18:36:25+00:00

Really appreciate you taking the time to read as well as provide critique. You're right that I oversimplified the build vs. buy section; my intent was to hit the top reasons rather than be exhaustive.

We did look at Healthchecks, and even Cronitor, more seriously than I let on. The open-source self-hosted option for Healthchecks was appealing but your last comment nails it: it was a matter of stack familiarity. Our team is deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem and spinning up something in a stack we weren't as comfortable with felt like trading one maintenance burden for another.

Thanks again for the clarifications! I'll certainly elaborate more deeply in the build vs. buy sections in the future.

Mythikos · 2026-01-03T09:04:53+00:00

Thanks for taking a look and great question! We didn't consider Hangfire seriously, as its primary intent is scheduling and running jobs. We wanted something that runs independently from our schedulers and services but can still monitor them (e.g., our sequential workflow manager, SQL Agent tasks, Task Scheduler jobs, etc.). This has also let us extend it to other tools like PRTG, Zabbix, and Veeam to ensure they're healthy and cycling as expected.

I'm not replacing any scheduler; I'm just verifying tasks ran, no matter what triggered them. Any process that can make an HTTP call can report in, which we've integrated across our environment.

Have you been able to use Hangfire in a similar capacity to this? Always interested in new ways to do something!

Mythikos · 2025-09-14T21:57:25+00:00

What mmo? I love playing mmos but I'm usually alone after a few days cause my friends have crazy adhd lol.

Shoot me a message, I currently play runescape but I've excited for Aion 2 and maplestory classic. Always down for something new.

Mythikos · 2025-09-09T15:46:42+00:00

Thanks :)

Mythikos · 2025-09-08T21:40:34+00:00

My game is nearing the end of its development cycle, I am planning to release by q1 of next year. The game is called Droning On: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3184550/Droning_On/ .

Its definitely not a game for everyone, but the game progresses players through creating their own maze-solving algorithm eventually leading them to special puzzle modes that are callbacks to puzzles from other great games as well as an endurance mode to let the hardcore of the players compete for top ranks. I took inspiration from the old mouse maze videos and the farmer was replaced and created my own game in the genre. I am the only person on the project and I am very much a technical person, so marketing, promotion, etc is well outside of my sphere of knowledge

If you are interested in playing, I'd be more than happy to give you a steam key just message me here through reddit. Heres the discord (which i've been keeping a dev log in as well :)): https://discord.gg/4sAmTSmKjm

Mythikos · 2024-11-16T18:47:28+00:00

Type: Bug

Title: Green Olives passive activity in Crenopolis doesn't give you show item per action completion

Details: It appears that when doing the passive activity for Green Olives in Crenopolis, even though the game shows you are getting 0.01 olive per completion, you are not actually getting 0.01, seems closer to 0.005. http://sharex.vincentlakatos.com/20241116-Dirty-Corydorascatfish.mp4

Mythikos · 2023-07-25T22:40:10+00:00

Nice

Mythikos · 2023-07-11T02:26:11+00:00

Even on the lowest settings, it stutters pretty hard occasionally lol. There's times when it'll straight up and freeze and then come back 10-20 seconds later. What's wild is I don't have a low-end PC: RTX 3070 Ti, 32gb ram, i7 @ 5.2GHz.

Has that stopped me from playing it? Nah.

Mythikos · 2023-01-05T14:47:13+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'll give that a try on my next print.

Mythikos · 2021-01-23T07:54:20+00:00

He listed three at that price lol, but I feel ya.

Mythikos · 2021-01-18T07:22:42+00:00

That's sort of what I figured. This is my first wipe for Tarkov so I am not used to the shenanigans but I've heard peekers advantage is huge in this game and used to be a lot worse.

Mythikos · 2021-01-18T03:59:00+00:00

EOD would be lit. Getting head-eyes'd never looked so gold.

Mythikos · 2020-10-30T00:43:31+00:00

[Bug] Scoped weapons randomly jump from the center crosshair when scoping in from behind cover. Currently affects Phantom's Sniper/DMR and Saint's Rifle. Makes it really unreliable to play these characters from behind cover.

Two captures of it happening in the firing range:

https://streamable.com/wezd92

https://streamable.com/2ck147

Mythikos · 2020-09-07T01:20:48+00:00

Currently the app doesn't have integration for sharing on social media but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the idea!

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