I'm going to have to run the same python script multiple of times (>500) at the same time using cron, I'm looking for ways to best handle this to avoid problems in future and if there is any better way that I can use for reporting and logging to alert me if one script is down , please advise me with it. 
Plan so far, is to make a copy of the same scripts (folder) a couple of times while renaming each to unique name to distinguish later, then run it using cron scheduler.
advise please.
Use multiprocessing if you do not want the data between the processes to be shared. You can give a name to your processes.
Running the same script multiple times , easier way to manage and report