Available information about background jobs

Depending on your privileges, you can view all the background jobs or only yours, cancel background jobs, place them on hold, resume them, or change their priority.

You can view the following information about background jobs on the Background Jobs page:
ColumnDescription
Assigned ToThe engine on which a job is running.
Completion DateThe date when a job was completed.
Creation DateThe date when the job was created.
CreatorThe person who created the job.
Execution LogSelect this link to see a log file that shows details about how the job is running. The log is updated dynamically if the job is still running.
Job IDAn internal number used to identify the job.
Job NameThe name of the job.
PriorityThe priority of the job. 1 is the highest priority and hobs with this priority are processed first. By default, the priority of every job is 5.
StatusThe current status of the job. Some of the possible statuses are:
  • Executing – The job is currently running. The time that has passed since starting the job is also displayed.
  • In queue – The job is waiting to run. The order in which this job will be handled is also displayed.
  • On Hold – The job has been placed on hold, which means that it will not start until someone resumes it.
  • Canceled – The job has been canceled and removed from the queue.
  • Waiting to be canceled – A user has canceled a running job and the system is currently trying to cancel it.
  • Completed – The job finished running and was successful.
  • Failed – The job encountered an error while running and was terminated.