support for a 'last run' file

[kitchen]

provide support for a 'last run' file, which will be touched when a cron successfully finishes running.

not sure if this is just something which the job should spit out itself and then be stored in logstash or what.

it's an interesting idea though.

[kitchen]

would also have to provide support for user-configurable 'ok' exit codes. for instance, if the job is running rsync, there are several rsync exit codes which I, personally, don't care about under most circumstances, so I would want those to be reported as successful runs.

On the flip side, that might just be something you'd want to pull out of logstash as a report, and can have a nagios check on that. The flipside is that implementing the 'last run' file is a pretty trivial exercise and doesn't require people to have the whole logstash infrastructure set up.