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Scheduler to run every 1min

bala-s — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:02:42 GMT

Hi Team,

To run a Scheduler every 1min, im using Custom Scheduler value as 0-59 * * * *

Can anyone suggest more options on this?

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:10:04 GMT

https://docs.workato.com/features/scheduler.html#schedule-configuration

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:11:32 GMT

I would use */1 * * * *

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

bala-s — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:15:48 GMT

with this config, At run time recipie is getting Fail.

Could you please test the recipie once and share here

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:18:15 GMT

You get failure exceptions for various reasons but not because scheduler triggered at a specific interval

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:18:41 GMT

What recipe you are talking about

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 00:36:24 GMT

It could be that running a recipe every one minute in a cloud iPaaS is not feasible. What use case you are trying to achieve? An alternate design needs to be in place for this scenario.

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

praveen-vengala — Wed, 12 May 2021 01:14:37 GMT

What I can perceive is that there are new jobs triggering before the earlier jobs complete their execution. You should always have a design to ensure that you ignore processing of new jobs when any job is executing currently at this time. For this you need to store the execution status of a job in persistent memory and query it to find out if there is any job running. Please reach out to me directly if you need further assistance.

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

gordonhuworkato — Wed, 12 May 2021 08:22:48 GMT

The default trigger limitation is shortest = 5 mins. Can cron job bypass this limit ?

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

gordonhuworkato — Wed, 12 May 2021 08:26:39 GMT

Just tested that */1 * * * * will not run, same as 2,3,4

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

bala-s — Wed, 12 May 2021 16:52:28 GMT

yes

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

brian-haskins — Thu, 13 May 2021 01:34:28 GMT

You could try a callable job repeat and wait one minute with the scheduler. I inadvertantly did that and it fired every 5 seconds for about an hour until I realized it.

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

gordonhuworkato — Thu, 13 May 2021 01:37:04 GMT

Sad to say that because of Workato’s current billable recipe model, we have to find these “workarounds” . I would prefer to spend more time on the actual workflow design instead of scheduling 🥲

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

sathia-seelan — Wed, 19 May 2021 08:51:08 GMT

Hi everyone, the minimum limit for scheduler is 5 minutes. Although you can bypass this limit by using Cron Expressions, the internal limit is still at 5 minutes. You may run into failures or get wonky results if you continue to run this.

Re: Scheduler to run every 1min

sathia-seelan — Wed, 19 May 2021 08:54:06 GMT

If you want to get a 1 min interval, the workaround is to call 5 different callable recipes (Assuming concurrency is at 1). Main recipe calls 1st callable recipe asynchronously, waits 1 minutes and proceeds to call 2nd callable recipe asynchronously and the pattern continues.