This script exposes the exit status of cronjobs.

This script was born out of a desire to monitor and alert on cronjobs using
Prometheus and Alertmanager.

This script was inspired by https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/

As far as I'm aware there isn't another facility for exposing metrics related
to this in Node Exporter.

This script receives two arguments, the description of the cronjob as a string
and the exit status of the previous command. It prints the metric to stdout.

Usage:

```bash
<command> ; cronjob "<description>" $?
```

Example crontab entry:

```
* * * * * echo "Hello world!"; cronjob "greeting" $? | sponge /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom
```

Example textfile:

```
[vagrant@rocky8 ~]$ cat /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom
node_cronjob_status{user="vagrant", description="greeting"} 0
```

Signed-off-by: Alex Kraker <[email protected]>

Author: Alex Kraker

cronjob

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Expose cronjob exit status
+#
+# Usage: <command> ; cronjob "<description>" $?
+#
+# Example crontab entry:
+# * * * * * echo "Hello world!"; cronjob "greeting" $? | sponge /var/lib/prometheus/node-exporter/cronjob_greeting.prom
+#
+# Inspired by: https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/09/07/monitor-cron-jobs-with-prometheus-grafana-and-node-exporter/
+#
+# Author: Alex Kraker (github.com/kraker)
+
+# Unofficial strict mode
+# See: http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
+set -euo pipefail
+IFS=$'\n\t'
+
+readonly DESCRIPTION="$1"
+readonly STATUS="$2"
+
+echo "# HELP node_cronjob_status Last exit code of cronjob."
+echo "# TYPE node_cronjob_status gauge"
+echo "node_cronjob_status{user=\"${USER}\", description=\"${DESCRIPTION}\"} ${STATUS}"