Monitoring Maintenance Tasks

Maintenance tasks include log rotation, cache cleanup, temp file deletion, and other housekeeping scripts. When these fail silently, disk fills up, performance degrades, or systems eventually crash.

Configuration

Set your API key as an environment variable. For cron jobs, add it to your crontab:

# Edit crontab
crontab -e

# Add at top of crontab
PAKYAS_API_KEY=pk_live_xxxxx

# Then your cleanup job
0 4 * * * pakyas monitor cleanup-task -- /scripts/cleanup.sh

Or source from a file:

0 4 * * * . ~/.pakyas_env && pakyas monitor cleanup-task -- /scripts/cleanup.sh

See Environment Variables for all options.

When to use this

• Maintenance runs on a schedule
• Skipped maintenance causes cascading problems
• Failures often go unnoticed until something breaks

Basic example

pakyas monitor cleanup-task -- ./cleanup.sh

Pakyas wraps your maintenance script and alerts you immediately if it fails or doesn’t run.

Scheduler setup

# crontab example - runs every day at 4am
0 4 * * * pakyas monitor cleanup-task -- /scripts/cleanup.sh

What Pakyas detects

• Cleanup script exits non-zero
• Script runs longer than expected
• Script never runs (missed schedule)