Cron jobs fail in a different way than web pages. A homepage failure is visible. A bad deploy breaks something a user can click. A failed background job can disappear quietly for days. That is why heartbeat monitoring is one of the first checks I would set up for a small SaaS. The short version Job type What can silently break First heartbeat rule Backups No fresh restore point Ping after a successful backup Billing jobs Missed invoices or r...