How to monitor scheduled and failed Apex jobs in Salesforce

Short answer: Setup splits jobs across two pages – Scheduled Jobs (what is scheduled) and Apex Jobs (each run) – and neither shows a job’s history at a glance. doDev, a free Chrome extension, shows every job with its recent runs, failures and next run.

Check them with doDev

1. Install doDev and open it from the toolbar while you are logged into Salesforce.
2. Go to Monitor → Jobs.
3. Click Load all jobs – last 7 days, or type a job Id, an Apex class or a scheduled job name and press Enter to go straight to one job.

You get:

• Overview – scheduled jobs, runs in 7 days, failed runs, what is running now, Needs attention (failures, worst first) and Coming up in the next 24 hours.
• Every job by type – Scheduled, Batch, Queueable and Future Apex, scheduled flows – with a dot for how it is doing and a 7-day grid of results.
• A job’s page – the schedule in words (with its cron expression), a countdown to the next run, each run as a bar, and the latest error with Salesforce’s full message.
• Times in your Salesforce time zone.

Doing it without a tool

• Setup → Scheduled Jobs – what is scheduled and the next run.
• Setup → Apex Jobs – each run, its status and the first error.
• SOQL – SELECT ApexClass.Name, JobType, Status, NumberOfErrors, ExtendedStatus, CreatedDate FROM AsyncApexJob WHERE CreatedDate = LAST_N_DAYS:7.

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