Duties
Recurring and on-demand jobs the box carries out end to end.
4 duties
- Box heartbeat Every ten minutes, check the box still has room to work: read the clock and the disk, decide whether space is getting tight, and only make noise if it is. A green run here means the runner and the schedule are both alive. cron · */10 * * * * America/Chicago enabled
- Fire drill A duty that fails on purpose, halfway through. Press Run now and the failure should be on the page in red, naming the step that broke and what it said. If this one ever looks like a success, the run history is lying. enabled
- Postcard from the box Press it and the box emails Ben a line about itself, through the notifications door. The point is the last step: it names an integration rather than carrying a credential, and the run says which address it went to. If this is ever green while no email arrives, check SES's send statistics — the notifications API claims success either way. enabled
- Weekday morning brief Every weekday at 07:00 Central, gather what moved on the tickets and the test servers since the last brief, write it up, and email it — but only when there is something to say. Ben reads it before standup. cron · 0 7 * * 1-5 America/Chicago enabled