Seiri guides
Scheduled job monitoring
Scheduled job monitoring covers anything that must run on a clock: digests, invoices, backups, ETL, reports. Seiri uses heartbeats so a missed window becomes an alert.
Cron job monitoring
Heartbeat monitoring
Dead man's switch
Scheduled jobs
K8s CronJobs
Kube agent
Email heartbeats
Background jobs
Common failure modes
- ·Cron entry removed after a migration
- ·Job starts but never finishes (hang / eviction)
- ·Job “succeeds” but skips the real work
- ·Schedule drift after DST or timezone changes
How to wire Seiri
Attach a ping to the end of a successful run, or install seiri-kube-agent and declare HealthCheck CRs for in-cluster workloads.
FAQ
Is this for website uptime?
No — it is for scheduled and background work that must check in.