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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+For every CronJob in the cluster, find its child Jobs
+(via ownerReferences) and report any which failed.
+Will automatically pick up new CronJob objects.
+
+Ensure that `ttlSecondsAfterFinished` is set to a high enough value
+(e.g., 172800 for two days) in the CronJob.
+Otherwise, Job objects will be purged too early, and the script
+could report an inaccurate status.
+
+Nagios exit statuses (for use with mrpe):
+Exits 2 if most recent Job in any CronJob failed
+Exits 1 if any Job failed but a more recent Job of that CronJob succeeded
+Exits 0 if all Jobs succeeded
+
+Requires: pip install kubernetes, credentials saved in default location
+"""
+
+import kubernetes
+import sys
+
+def load_kube_config():
+    # Tries in-cluster config first (e.g. running as a Pod), falls back
+    # to your local kubeconfig (~/.kube/config or $KUBECONFIG).
+    # (for use in check_mk, will likely prefer $HOME/.kube/config
+    try:
+        kubernetes.config.load_incluster_config()
+    except kubernetes.config.ConfigException:
+        kubernetes.config.load_kube_config()
+
+
+def main():
+    try:
+        load_kube_config()
+    except kubernetes.config.ConfigException as exc:
+        print(f"can't load Kubernetes configuration: {exc}")
+        return 3
+    try:
+        batch = kubernetes.client.BatchV1Api()
+    except:
+        print("can't connect to k8s")
+    
+    try:
+        cronjobs = batch.list_cron_job_for_all_namespaces().items
+        jobs = batch.list_job_for_all_namespaces().items
+    except:
+        print("can't get CronJobs from k8s")
+    
+    # Index jobs by their owning CronJob's uid
+    jobs_by_cronjob_uid = {}
+    for job in jobs:
+        for ref in job.metadata.owner_references or []:
+            if ref.kind == "CronJob":
+                try:
+                    jobs_by_cronjob_uid.setdefault(ref.uid, []).append(job)
+                except:
+                    print("can't get Jobs from k8s")
+
+    cronjob_names = []
+    failed_children = []
+    status=3
+
+    for cj in cronjobs:
+        ns = cj.metadata.namespace
+        name = cj.metadata.name
+        uid = cj.metadata.uid
+
+        cronjob_names.append(cj.metadata.namespace+'/'+cj.metadata.name)
+        children = sorted(
+            jobs_by_cronjob_uid.get(uid, []),
+            key=lambda j: (
+                (j.status.start_time or j.metadata.creation_timestamp).timestamp()
+                if (j.status.start_time or j.metadata.creation_timestamp)
+                else 0.0
+            ),
+        )
+
+        cronjobstatus=3
+        # setting the status like this depends on jobs being sorted by date
+        # which the script doesn't currently check for
+        for job in children:
+            #print (str(job))
+            conditions = job.status.conditions or []
+            if any(c.type == "Failed" and c.status == "True" for c in conditions):
+                failed_children.append(f"{job.metadata.namespace}/{job.metadata.name}")
+                cronjobstatus=2
+            # explicitly look for success
+            elif any(c.type == "Complete" and c.status == "True" for c in conditions):
+                if (len(failed_children) > 0):
+                    cronjobstatus=1
+                else:
+                    cronjobstatus=0
+            # otherwise this Job object won't change cronjobstatus
+
+        # set global status based on status of previous and current CronJob objects
+        if (status == 3):
+            status=cronjobstatus
+        if (cronjobstatus > status and cronjobstatus != 3):
+            status=cronjobstatus
+
+    if failed_children:
+        print(f"failed CronJobs:  {', '.join(failed_children)} ; CronJobs checked: {', '.join(cronjob_names)}")
+    elif status == 0:
+#        print(str(status) + f" ok      {ns}/{name}  ({len(children)} job(s))")
+        print(f"all CronJobs OK, CronJobs checked: {', '.join(cronjob_names)}")
+    else:
+        print(f"status of CronJobs unknown, CronJobs checked: {', '.join(cronjob_names)}")
+
+    # required in order to exit script with correct exit value
+    return status
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())