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Cron job failed silently

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Every morning a nightly cron job rebuilds a summary report that the business team reads at 9am. Today the report is stale, it still shows yesterday's numbers. No alerts fired overnight, and the web service itself is healthy. The cron is the only thing that updates this report. Where do you start, and how do you get today's report out?

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  • Scheduled job
  • Batch
  • Monitoring