Cron Job Monitoring for Golang applications

Cron monitoring in Golang #

Oh Dear users can add cron job monitoring to any existing Golang script. When you create a cronjob monitor in your Oh Dear account, you're given a unique pingback URL that should be called every time a cronjob completes.

In this guide, we'll cover how you can implement that in your existing Golang code.

Cron job monitoring in generic Golang #

You can make use of the net/http library for making network calls.

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "log"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
    response, _, err := http.Get("https://ping.ohdear.app/e536e771-9ff6")

    if err != nil {
      log.Println('Couldnt ping Oh Dear endpoint')
    }
}

Note: make sure your script stops executing on error conditions, so the http.Get function isn't called even if the script has failed.