About Pakyas

Pakyas exists to solve a specific problem: knowing whether a job actually ran, ran on time, and finished as expected.

Most monitoring tools were built for servers. Jobs are not servers.

Cron jobs, background workers, and scheduled tasks have intent, timing, and completion boundaries. Treating them like always-on services creates false confidence, missed failures, and noisy alerts that don't map to real work.

Pakyas is built around a different mental model.

What job monitoring really means

Job monitoring means verifying execution based on signals emitted by the job itself.

A job is only considered healthy after it sends a successful execution signal. Silence is never treated as success.

This allows Pakyas to reason about job-specific states that actually matter:

• On Schedule - the job ran successfully within expectations
• Late - the job ran, but outside its expected window
• Missing - no execution signal was received
• Running - the job is currently executing
• Overrunning - the job is taking longer than expected
• Paused - the job is intentionally disabled
• Waiting for first ping - the job has not executed yet

These distinctions are not cosmetic. They prevent incorrect alerts and surface real operational risk.

Why traditional monitoring fails for jobs

Server-style monitoring assumes:

• Continuous availability
• Binary up or down states
• External polling as a source of truth

Jobs violate all three assumptions.

A late job is not the same as a failed job. A missing execution is not the same as a healthy one. Polling can't verify intent or completion.

When dashboards stay green despite missed or delayed jobs, real problems are hidden. This leads to stress later, not confidence now.

The Pakyas approach

Pakyas is execution-signal-based job monitoring.

Jobs emit signals when they start and finish. Pakyas evaluates those signals against expected schedules and execution bounds, then determines state changes before alerting.

This design prioritizes:

• Truth over reassurance
• State transitions over raw events
• Signal evaluation over guesswork

Alerts are sent only when something actionable happens, not every time a timer ticks.

Built to coexist

Pakyas is not trying to replace everything.

Infrastructure monitoring, logs, and metrics still matter. Pakyas focuses on jobs and the operational questions they raise:

• Did it run?
• Was it late?
• Did it finish?
• Should someone act now?

By separating job monitoring from server assumptions, teams get clearer signals and fewer false alarms.

Who Pakyas is for

Pakyas is built for engineers who run:

• cron jobs
• background jobs
• scheduled workers
• batch processing tasks

Especially when those jobs are business-critical, time-sensitive, or quietly failing.

Our principle

Monitoring should reduce stress, not create it.

Clear states. Honest signals. Alerts that mean action.

That is why Pakyas exists.