The Scheduled Job Checker extension provides comprehensive monitoring and alerting for CiviCRM's scheduled jobs, ensuring administrators are immediately notified when critical automated processes fail. This extension acts as a watchdog for your CiviCRM system, monitoring job execution logs and providing both visual and email alerts when failures occur within the last 24 hours.
Key Features:
- Real-time monitoring of scheduled job failures
- Dual alert system: UI notifications and email alerts
- 24-hour failure detection window
- Detailed error log analysis and reporting
- Integration with CiviCRM System Status dashboard
- Configurable alert preferences per job type
- Proactive Monitoring: Catch job failures before they impact your operations
- Immediate Notification: Get alerts the moment scheduled jobs fail
- Detailed Diagnostics: Access comprehensive error logs and failure analysis
- System Reliability: Ensure critical processes like mailings, memberships, and donations work correctly
- Peace of Mind: Continuous monitoring without manual log checking
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce downtime by quickly identifying and resolving issues
This extension is essential for organizations that rely on:
- Automated Mailings: Email newsletters, reminders, and campaigns
- Membership Processing: Renewal reminders, status updates, grace periods
- Recurring Donations: Scheduled contribution processing
- Event Management: Registration confirmations, waitlist processing
- Data Synchronization: Integration with external systems
- Reporting: Automated report generation and distribution
- Cleanup Tasks: Database maintenance, log rotation, cache clearing
- CiviCRM: 5.27 or higher
- PHP: 7.0 or higher (recommended 7.4+)
- Permissions: Administrative access to system settings and scheduled jobs
- Email Configuration: SMTP setup required for email alerts
- Cron Jobs: Properly configured cron for scheduled job execution
This extension has not yet been published for installation via the web UI.
Sysadmins and developers may download the .zip file for this extension and
install it with the command-line tool cv.
cd <extension-dir>
cv dl com.skvare.jobchecker@https://github.com/Skvare/com.skvare.jobchecker/archive/master.zipSysadmins and developers may clone the Git repo for this extension and install it with the command-line tool cv.
git clone https://github.com/Skvare/com.skvare.jobchecker.git
cv en jobcheckerAfter installation, configure the job monitoring settings:
- Navigate to Settings:
- Go to Administer > System Settings > Scheduled Job Status Checker
- Or directly visit:
/civicrm/admin/jobchecker
- Configure Alert Preferences:
- Choose between UI alerts, email alerts.
- Select which scheduled jobs to monitor (e.g., Mailings, Memberships, Contributions).
- Set recipient email addresses for failure notifications
- Issues: Report bugs and feature requests on GitHub Issues
Developed by Skvare, LLC for the CiviCRM community.
Skvare LLC specializes in CiviCRM development, Drupal integration, and providing technology solutions for nonprofit organizations, professional societies, membership-driven associations, and small businesses. We are committed to developing open source software that empowers our clients and the wider CiviCRM community.
Contact Information:
- Website: https://skvare.com
- Email: info@skvare.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Skvare
Contact us for support or to learn more.
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For a complete list of our open source contributions, visit our GitHub organization page.