Get notified about issues with job queue background processing

Important

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	Oct 2024

Business value

Sometimes tasks, reports, or batch processes can take a long time to complete. To keep people productive in the meantime, companies often use Business Central's ability to run processes in the background. If something goes wrong and an important background process stops, or isn't scheduled for some reason, being notified of the issue can help you react quickly to resolve it.

Feature details

To be notified when there are issues with job queue processing, you can subscribe to external business events that are emitted when:

• Job queue processing fails after a number of retries.
• Job queue processing fails to schedule.

The When a business event occurs trigger in a Power Automate flow can catch external business events when they're emitted. To give you flexibility, you can choose from a couple of built-in Power Automate templates that we're shipping with this feature.

You can also create a new Power Automate flow to set up a notification mechanism that's best for your business. For example:

• Notify the user whose credentials the job queue uses to run.
• Notify the notification recipients you set up in the Business Central admin center.

Additional job queue APIs allow such automations to react to specific job queue issues by restarting or rescheduling the job queue.

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