Find upcoming CRON jobs for a specific method in app

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Is there a way to find out if a particular method in my app already has a CRON job coming up and at what moment is it programmed to fire? I know this has been asked a few times before but those are like 3-4 years old. So just hoping that something new has been implemented or if a whitelisted library has this functionality in it?

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http://<hubIPaddress>/logs/json jobs key will give you a list of pending jobs.

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Thanks thebearmay! Do you have an app that uses this method so I can have a working example? If you don't, I'll figure it out :wink:

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127.0.0.1:8080 :wink:

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I remember using it for a one off, need to look around and see if I can find it.

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Just open the LOGS on your hub, and then select Scheduled Jobs from the top list of tabs.

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I thought @nclark wanted to get those programmatically:

If that's the case, here's some code to get you started:

def fetchCurrentStats() {
    try {
        def params = [
            uri: "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
            path: "/logs/json",
            contentType: "application/json"
        ]

        def stats = null
        httpGet(params) { resp ->
            if (resp.success) {
                stats = resp.data
            }
        }
        return stats
    } catch (e) {
        log.error "Error fetching stats: ${e}"
        return null
    }
}

def getCurrentStatsSummary() {
    def stats = fetchCurrentStats()
    if (!stats) {
        return "Unable to fetch current stats"
    }

    return """
        <b>Uptime:</b> ${stats.uptime}<br>
        <b>Devices Runtime:</b> ${stats.totalDevicesRuntime} (${stats.devicePct})<br>
        <b>Apps Runtime:</b> ${stats.totalAppsRuntime} (${stats.appPct})<br>
        <b>Total Devices:</b> ${stats.deviceStats.size()}<br>
        <b>Total Apps:</b> ${stats.appStats.size()}<br>
        <b>Scheduled Jobs:</b> ${stats.jobs.size()}
    """
}

If via the UI, easiest is to go to the app status page and scroll down to the list of the app's scheduled jobs.

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Ahhh, yes! I should have read the question more carefully!

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Using that snippet status.jobs.each should give you a set of jobs information that looks similar to {"id":"app2382Recur.clearChldCaches","name":"webCoRE HE","link":"/installedapp/configure/2382","recurring":true,"methodName":"clearChldCaches","nextRun":"2025-12-07 20:19:22 EST","nextRunDt":"2025-12-08T01:19:22+0000"},…

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@ogiewon, this was programmatically as @hubitrep pointed out, reason it's in coding questions :wink: but I did learn something that I did not know or noticed that you can find them there also.

Thanks @hubitrep and @thebearmay, I'll look into that code, should get me started so that I don't need to keep score in a state variable of what is already scheduled and the cleanup that is needed each time one is fired from CRON, this will be a lot easier!

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