Can I monitor individual scheduled commands, not just schedule:run?

Yes. Create a heartbeat monitor per critical command and ping the matching URL after that command completes successfully.

Monitor Laravel scheduler jobs

Q: How do I monitor Laravel scheduler jobs?

Use UpDog heartbeat monitoring. Have your scheduler or a wrapper script ping the UpDog check-in URL after schedule:run completes successfully. UpDog alerts if the check-in is missed or late.

Q: Where should I add the heartbeat ping in Laravel?

The simplest approach is adding the ping to the system cron that runs schedule:run. If you need job-level visibility, add separate heartbeats for critical scheduled commands.

Q: How do I avoid noisy alerts for Laravel scheduled tasks?

Use realistic intervals, add a grace window, and only page for jobs that require immediate action. Route everything else to email or chat.

Q: What’s the best alert channel for Laravel scheduler failures?

Email is a good baseline. Use Slack/Teams for coordination and SMS/on-call for the small set of jobs that are truly urgent.

Laravel’s scheduler is great—until it silently stops running. UpDog heartbeat monitoring gives you uptime-style alerts when schedule:run doesn’t check in on time.

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Laravel scheduler monitoring using UpDog heartbeat checks

What you can do with UpDog + Laravel Scheduler

Laravel scheduled tasks fail in boring ways: cron stopped, the server is out of disk, a deploy removed the cron entry, permissions changed, queue workers stalled, or a dependency started timing out. The common theme is silence.

Detect missed schedule runs when the underlying cron or container scheduling breaks.
Catch “running late” problems when queue or dependency latency delays scheduled work.
Monitor critical jobs individually by creating separate heartbeats per scheduled command.

How to set it up (step-by-step)

Create a heartbeat monitor in UpDog for your scheduler (pick the expected interval and add a grace window).
Copy the UpDog check-in URL.
Update the cron entry that runs php artisan schedule:run to ping UpDog after it completes successfully.
Send alerts to the right channel (email by default; Slack/Teams for coordination; SMS/on-call for critical workflows).
Run schedule:run once manually and confirm UpDog records a check-in.

Example cron entry (ping after success)

* * * * * cd /var/www/app && php artisan schedule:run \
  && curl -fsS https://updog.watch/heartbeat/your-check-in-url

Exact paths will vary. The important part is: ping only after success.

Best practices

Start with one scheduler heartbeat

Monitoring schedule:run is the fastest win. Add job-level heartbeats only for the handful of tasks that are business-critical.

Separate prod and staging

Staging schedules are noisy and often paused. Keep production alerts clean by separating environments into different monitors and notification routes.

Route urgent jobs differently

A missed “send marketing email” job can be email. A missed “invoice customers” job might be SMS/on-call. Route accordingly.

Troubleshooting

UpDog shows missed check-ins: verify the cron is running and that the ping executes after a successful command.
Intermittent misses: check timeouts, DNS resolution, and server egress rules from your Laravel host.
Everything is late: that’s usually a performance issue—queue backlog, DB contention, or a slow dependency.
Deploy caused alerts: confirm your deploy didn’t remove/overwrite the system cron entry.

FAQ

How do I monitor Laravel scheduler jobs?

Use UpDog heartbeat monitoring and ping after schedule:run completes successfully.

Where should I add the heartbeat ping in Laravel?

Add it to the system cron that runs schedule:run, or add per-job heartbeats for critical scheduled commands.

How do I avoid noisy alerts for Laravel scheduled tasks?

Use a grace window, alert only on real lateness, and page only for urgent jobs.

Can I monitor individual scheduled commands?

Yes—create a heartbeat monitor per critical command and ping on success.

What’s the best alert channel for Laravel scheduler failures?

Email for baseline, Slack/Teams for coordination, and SMS/on-call for the most critical jobs.

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