after brief discussion in MDLSITE-2969 with mspurrier, the need for cron/logs monitoring resurfaced.

a short discussion with damyon regarding 2.7 features.

[14:03:58] <aparup> does the new cron scheduling stuff feedback to admin about errors during cron?
[14:07:00] <Damyon Wiese> The output is not captured
[14:07:22] <Damyon Wiese> but when a task fails it will get scheduled to be retried
[14:07:27] <Damyon Wiese> and you can see that in the admin page
[14:07:46] <Damyon Wiese> it throttles back the retries until they are only once every 24 hours
[14:08:19] <aparup> ah ok so 'retried' status is something we could get nagios to monitor (or the cron logs directly)
[14:18:56] <Damyon Wiese> yep
[14:19:42] <Damyon Wiese> in the admin interface it's the "Fail delay" column
[14:20:02] <aparup> awesome thanks
[14:20:42] <Damyon Wiese> You could check the cron output for "task failed:" too