[kevin061]

What I did is make the scripts ping uptime kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

This has two advantages. First, if cron jobs are not running at all for some reason, the timeout will notify you.

Second, you can also manually trigger error conditions by pushing to uptime kuma with an error message, exactly the same as if you used cron email notifications.

If the uptime kuma endpoint is pinged with s higher frequency than the timeout you configured it to, then no alerts are fired.