GitLab Scheduled Pipeline Monitoring: How to Catch Missed CI/CD Runs Before They Break Production

GitLab scheduled pipeline monitoring matters because scheduled CI/CD jobs can fail quietly while the rest of your system looks healthy. Your application is up. Your GitLab project is reachable. Recent commits build successfully. But the scheduled pipeline that runs nightly tests, refreshes staging data, checks dependencies, builds reports, syncs artifacts, or runs cleanup jobs may have stopped hours or days ago. That is the uncomfortable part about scheduled pipelines: they often run outside the