In some cases, you may want to determine the success (or failure) of cron job execution by the content of the output responded from your cron job script (not only by the HTTP code).
With the new feature we introduced today, you can now use regexp to match the output (HTTP message body), and then judge if the cron job execution is successful.
Output regexp matching
As you can see in the screenshot, there are 3 options you could choose from as the condition for your execution to be considered as succeeded or failed:
- When the HTTP Status is 2xx, consider succeeded. (This is the default option)
- When the HTTP Status is 2xx, consider succeeded if the HTTP message body matches a specified regular expression.
- When the HTTP Status is 2xx, consider failed if the HTTP message body matches a specified regular expression.
After above 3 new options were added, the complete rules for judging success or failure are:
- Consider failed when the HTTP Status is NOT 2xx (e.g. 200, 201, etc.).
- When the HTTP Status is 2xx, check above 3 options.
For the sake of simplicity and matching performance, we use Google re2 as the regexp engine.
Hope that the new feature rocks for you.
