Scripts often report by email whether they were successful or not. This is very practical in the event of an error, as these emails often include the error message. But does anyone realise that a backup has not run for a week, for example?
A very widely used open source monitoring solution Zabbix, which we also use, can use a template to automatically create the necessary data records and collect the information
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