A reader comment made me realise I'd only solved half the problem

A reader comment highlighted a critical oversight in cron job monitoring: jobs can run successfully but produce no output, going undetected by standard failure modes. This new insight led to the development of output assertions in DeadManCheck, which verifies if a job produces expected results, ensuring comprehensive monitoring coverage. Developers should now implement checks for all three failure modes—job silence, slow execution, and empty output—to prevent unnoticed data integrity issues.

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