[jcrawfordor]

Without judgment intended, as a Linux sysadmin you should absolutely be monitoring mail to root. That is the standard place to deliver error output from unattended processes. You can easily /etc/alias it to something else if that's more convenient.

[toomuchtodo]

Sysadmin/Devops here. I send all root mail to Graylog.

[nickpsecurity]

That does look nice. Thanks for Graylog reference.

[StavrosK]

Graylog looks fantastic, thanks for the mention.

[toomuchtodo]

You'll love it. I'm pushing tens of thousands of messages per second into a cluster, and it works like a champ.