Monitor Background Jobs in Go Fiber Applications

The Problem

Go Fiber apps running background goroutines for scheduled tasks face the same invisible-failure problem: the web server stays healthy while background work silently stops.

The Solution

Run a cron scheduler alongside Fiber and add CronRabbit pings to each job.

Integration

Use robfig/cron for scheduling and CronRabbit for monitoring. Start both alongside your Fiber server.

Code Examples

Fiber with monitored cron

package main

import (
	"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
	"github.com/robfig/cron/v3"
	"net/http"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
	c := cron.New()
	c.AddFunc("0 3 * * *", func() {
		client.Get("https://ping.cronrabbit.com/your-id/start")
		if err := runNightlyJob(); err != nil {
			client.Get("https://ping.cronrabbit.com/your-id/fail")
			return
		}
		client.Get("https://ping.cronrabbit.com/your-id")
	})
	c.Start()

	app := fiber.New()
	app.Listen(":3000")
}

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