Managing Jobs

Managing Jobs in your codebase and the dashboard

Disabling Jobs

To prevent a Job from processing new Runs, you can disable it by setting the enabled option:

client.defineJob({
  id: "example-job",
  name: "Example Job",
  version: "0.1.0",
  trigger: eventTrigger({ name: "example.event" }),
  enabled: false,
  run: async (payload, io, ctx) => {
    // your Job code here
  },
});

If you omit the enabled option, it will default to true.

The Job will only be disabled in environments that have seen the enabled = false value. So the Job will remain enabled in production until the code with the enabled = false is deployed to production.

Currently this is the only way to disable a Job. If you’d like to disable a Job in the Dashboard, please reach out to us on Discord and let us know 👋

Once a Job is disabled no new Runs will be created for that Job, and it will still be visible in the Dashboard as disabled:

In-progress Runs

In-progress Runs will be allowed to finish, even Runs that are currently delayed from a call to io.wait. If you’d like to completely stop in-progress Runs, you have two options:

• Set the enabled option to false and then throw an error at the top of your Job run function.

client.defineJob({
  id: "example-job",
  name: "Example Job",
  version: "0.1.0",
  trigger: eventTrigger({ name: "example.event" }),
  enabled: false,
  run: async (payload, io, ctx) => {
    throw new Error("Job disabled");
  },
});

• Delete the Job from your codebase. This will disable the Job as well but also stop in progress Runs.

Disabling in production with env vars

You can easily disable Jobs in production using env vars so you don’t have to deploy new code to disable a Job.

client.defineJob({
  id: "example-job",
  name: "Example Job",
  version: "0.1.0",
  trigger: eventTrigger({ name: "example.event" }),
  enabled: process.env.TRIGGER_JOBS_DISABLED !== "true",
  run: async (payload, io, ctx) => {
    // your Job code here
  },
});

Then you can disable the Job in production by setting the TRIGGER_JOBS_DISABLED env var to "true". And removing the env var will re-enable the Job.

Deleting Jobs

Once you have disabled a Job in all environments, you can delete it from the dashboard by navigating to the Job list page and clicking the “triple-dot” menu next to the Job you want to delete:

This will bring up a dialog confirming that you want to delete the Job and all of its history: