Is this something that happens every 5 minutes? or is it intermittent?

What kind of app are you running on the CRON schedule?

I left it last night on that schedule and it did not run at all. I am calling an API that saves something on a database.

What cron expression do you have set?

Does the app exit as soon as it's done it's task?

*/5 * * * *

It says it will run in 3 seconds, 3 seconds have passed it did not trigger anything.

Then I wait another 5 minutes till the countdown, same.

Please answer the second question I asked.

I don't know how to answer it.

Status of the run are below when it gets triggered:

Deploying

Active

Completed

But since it's not triggered, no history is saved at all.

No worries, please let me know when you are able to answer.

Not sure if this will help but my script "exits" after each run.

Also, the schedule was working OK before. I just started to encounter this last night - it was not triggered at all.

Does the task take longer than 5 minutes?

Not at all. It only runs for less than 30 seconds.

Are you able to confirm that it does exit after it's done?

It does -- I have a logs that says my program is done.

I have set it to run every 15mins now, so far this works. But for my program, I have to run it as frequent as possible so ~3mins is my target.

To be honest in don't even think you can do a 5 minute frequency on the Hobby plan, you might be far better off doing an in code cron scheduler.

That makes sense. Thank you for the insight!

Let me know how the in code cron scheduler works!

Related to this question, I have around 10 cron jobs, each scheduled to run once a day and at different times from one another. I am exepriencing that some (not always the same) do not start the cron job. The behaviour is quite strange because not always the same cron jobs are involved. This is making the whole process very unreliable for my app. Any idea or suggestion? Thank you

My suggestion would be the same as the previous suggestion I gave, switch to an in-coce scheduler.

Thanks for your answer. From a technical standpoint, is the cron job failure due to the hobbly plan resources? would upgrading plan solve the issue and guarantee reliability in the cron sheduler ?

what is an in-code scheduler? any documentation on how to do this?