I was thrown off by this as well, so I created a gem that extends exception_notification for Rake tasks. I've been using successfully with the Heroku scheduler for a while: https://github.com/nikhaldi/exception_notification-rake
This will only work for you if you're specifically running Rake tasks with the scheduler though. Nik On Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:08:19 PM UTC+1, Kelly Felkins wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > I added a rescue block to the method that sends an email with the stack > trace. In the mean time I realize I have other backgroundish jobs that can > fail silently (logged, but I'm rarely monitoring the logs). > > This seems like an obvious omission. I find it strange that a job can fail > and there is no built in mechanism to send an alert. The concept of > > 1. modifying the job to interact via api with a remote service > 2. paying a remote service to interact with me to let me know my job > is not behaving > > seems... perhaps I could be convinced but right now I don't see the value. > > -Kelly > > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Espen Antonsen > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> There are a few monitoring services for cron jobs, like >> http://crontabulator.com/. I'm hoping to find a simple open-source >> alternative as the commercial options seem to be part-time projects or >> abandonware. >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:59:24 AM UTC+1, Kelly Felkins wrote: >> >>> I would like my scheduler jobs to notify me if there is a failure. >>> >>> One possibility is to wrap the processing in a rescue block, and send an >>> email if an exception is raised. >>> >>> Is there something simpler available? For example in Vixie cron there is >>> a "mailto" option which sends the output of the cron, error or otherwise, >>> to the address specified by the mailto option. >>> >>> -Kelly >>> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kelly Felkins > about.me/kellyfelkins > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
