If a background task fails in your Heroku app and no one is around to monitor it, can it mess up your app? It sure does! Effective Heroku monitoring is how you ensure your app runs smoothly and efficiently.
We've prepared this quick tutorial to help you with monitoring Heroku jobs and make sure everybody who needs to know, knows when a Heroku cron job fails. To quote G.I. Joe, knowing is half the battle!
Make sure to read our post on how to debug scheduled tasks too.