Monitor cron jobs with healthchecks#83
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transistortim merged 3 commits intodevelopfrom Apr 19, 2026
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These scripts should be called by cron instead of directly executing the commands.
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Previously, we directly called Django management commands via cron and stored the output to a log file, which was overwritten on the next run.
This PR adds scripts which additionally ping https://healthchecks.io and store the command output so that we can easily monitor our cron jobs. Moreover, healthchecks.io sends an alert if a cron job fails.
This was tested in prod for some weeks without issues, so it's finally time to merge it.