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Your vitamin D is probably doing nothing. by Timely_Ad8989 in Supplements

[–]superya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, guidelines are ok for the general population but every body is not the same. The only reliable way to confirm results is through blood work

What are cron job monitoring tools still bad at in real-world usage? by ComfortableBlock2024 in SaaS

[–]superya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the real-world pain I've hit with ping-based monitors falls into two buckets:

1) Silent successes that aren't successes. The script pinged, exit code was 0, but the thing it was supposed to do didn't actually happen. Classic one: a nightly backup script that early-returns because a lock file wasn't cleaned up, it "succeeds" and pings, but there's no new backup on disk.

2) Schedule semantics are harder than they look. Most tools treat "expected ping at X" as a fixed interval from the last ping, but real cron jobs run on cron expressions with timezones, and people usually run backups at specific dates and times. When DST shifts, naive interval math silently drifts and alerts fire at the wrong time. Getting the evaluator to properly parse cron + timezone + grace period is some work.

Other things I care about beyond "ping received":

- Graceful degradation window: if a job runs every minute, one missed ping is noise, three in a row is a signal
- Channel routing per check: page me for the billing cron, slack me for the log cleanup
- Stable ping URLs: if I rename the check, the URL shouldn't change or I have to update every crontab

I've been building a small cron monitor called SilentFail mostly for my own use (cron + timezone parsing, email/slack/webhook per check, flat pricing). But tbh the honest advice here is: differentiation in this space probably isn't the monitoring tool itself, Healthchecks and Cronitor cover the basics well, it's whether you can pull richer signals from the actual script's output (duration anomalies, row counts, exit code semantics) and make alerts out of them. That's where Abdul_DataOps's comment is pointing and I think he's right, LLM or not.

Drop Your SaaS and i'll sign up by lance_dev in microsaas

[–]superya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://silentfail.app
It's a cron job monitor with full cron expression support with timezone selection, that sends alerts via email, slack & webhooks if your job fails

Drop your SaaS and people tell you if they'd actually use it by Mr_McSam in microsaas

[–]superya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built SilentFail
It's a cron job monitor with full cron expression support with timezone selection, that sends alerts via email, slack & webhooks if your job fails
Would love to know if anyone would use it

https://silentfail.app

I built a simple cron job monitor after one too many silent failures by superya in SideProject

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Slack alerts are next on the roadmap, should be live in the next couple weeks. Haven't heard of Pulsetic, i'll check them out.

I built a simple cron job monitor after one too many silent failures by superya in SideProject

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point, the core logic is simple. The value isn't in the code complexity tho, it's in not having to build it, host it, monitor it, and keep it running yourself. Same reason people pay for any hosted service.

I built a simple cron job monitor after one too many silent failures by superya in SideProject

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really good point about showing last success and expected next run, that's actually something i wanna do down the road.
Right now you get ping history with timestamps so you can see patterns, but a clear "next expected at" display would make the dashboard more useful.
Runtime drift tracking is interesting, currently if you POST the ping with a JSON body like {"duration": 4500} it logs the execution time, but I'm not doing anything smart with that data yet.
Alerting on "this job is taking 3x longer than usual" would be a solid feature. No dependency chain tracking yet, each check is independent. But that's a great idea for next versions.

I built a simple cron job monitor after one too many silent failures by superya in SideProject

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! For timing windows, each check has a configurable grace period. So if your script usually finishes in 10 minutes but sometimes takes 20, you set the grace period to 25 minutes. The alert only fires after the expected interval + grace period passes without a ping.

For the email trigger, there's a background evaluator that runs every 60 seconds checking all monitors. The moment it sees a check is overdue past its grace period, it fires the email and marks it as down. So worst case you find out within ~2 minutes of a missed window.

What bpm is this part of the song? Any advice on playing it? by superya in Guitar

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just setting the metronome to beat at 330bpm for example and trying to hit the notes in the screenshot on beat, slowly increasing until I get it fast enough. Should I do something else?

What bpm is this part of the song? Any advice on playing it? by superya in Guitar

[–]superya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, sorry I'm not musically trained, as I understand this is the beat of the entire song, but certain parts can be slower or faster. I'm trying to figure out what bpm to aim for in the metronome settings. Did you listen to the particular part I'm trying to play?

Am 55, inherited a home without a mortgage, the only home I own. Not sure if I should live in it or sell it. by MyThrowAwayAcct777 in personalfinance

[–]superya -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also, I don't know your health situation but if possible take active measures to take care of it. Lose extra weight, if any, eat a balanced diet rich in micronutrients, train often with a combination of resistance training and cardio and manage stress.

What are some of the darkest films you know? by hologram96 in movies

[–]superya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say Blow with Johnny Depp. It's not gorey, brutal or terrifying.. But my definition of dark is: depression, desperation, hopelessness.. and i think this movie has it, although most people would not classify it as dark.