Scheduled action monitor

Scheduled action monitor shows whether WooCommerce’s background jobs (Action Scheduler) are keeping up: overdue, failed and stuck actions, with run now, retry and clean-up. Shows in: Monitor tab

Scheduled action monitor is a Developer tool: only site admins see it. Its page carries the amber warning: “These tools can make permanent changes that can’t be undone. Take a backup first. SmartWP Plugins isn’t responsible for lost data or downtime.” See Developer and Performance tools.

Turn it on

Go to WooCommerce → Powerups and switch on Scheduled action monitor in the Developer group.
Click Configure, then the Monitor tab.

It needs Action Scheduler, which comes with WooCommerce.

Queue health

Counts: Overdue, Failed, Running (and how many have run for over 5 minutes, which usually means stuck), Waiting, Done and Canceled. Click Refresh to count again; counts are kept for 10 minutes.
When the oldest waiting action was due, when the last one finished, and the next queue run.
The size of the actions and logs tables.
Failed by hook: which jobs fail most.

If actions are running late, a warning says the queue may not be running and links to Cron inspector (when it’s on) or Site Health.

The lists

Three lists: Failed, Overdue and Running. Filter by an exact hook name. Details shows the action’s facts, its arguments and its log. For anything else, use WooCommerce’s Tools → Scheduled Actions screen. Action Scheduler’s own actions and WooCommerce’s database updates are Protected: you can view them, not change them. Actions that handle payments, renewals, subscriptions or webhooks are marked “May charge, refund or send again.”

Actions

Action	Where	Confirm	What it does
Run now	Overdue	Review (click twice)	Runs one due action in the background straight away, never inside your page. The row shows Queued → Running → Done or Failed.
Retry	Failed	Review (click twice). Advanced (type “retry”) for actions that may charge again.	Adds a new copy of the failed action to the queue.
Cancel…	Overdue	Advanced (type “cancel”)	The selected actions won’t run. A repeating action stops repeating.
Delete…	Failed	Advanced (type “delete”)	Deletes finished, failed or canceled actions and their logs for good. Cancel waiting actions first.
Purge old actions	Below the lists	Advanced (type “purge”)	Deletes Done, Failed or Canceled actions older than a number of days, in steps while the page stays open.

On multisite, Advanced actions need a network (super) admin. Retrying an action marked “May charge, refund or send again.” is an Advanced change: retry it from its own row and type “retry”. Admins below the Advanced level see “Retrying it is an Advanced change: it needs a network admin.” in its place. When you retry several selected actions at once, these ones are skipped. If Run now hasn’t started after 30 seconds, the server may block requests to itself; check the loopback test in Cron inspector or Site Health. While it runs, it counts as Action Scheduler’s one batch, so the normal queue waits.

Masked arguments

Argument values under sensitive names (tokens, passwords and similar) are masked. Values in a plain list without names are shown as they are.

Settings

These apply while the power-up is on. Switch it off and Action Scheduler’s defaults apply again.

Setting	Default	What it does
Keep finished actions for (days)	0 (Action Scheduler’s default, 31 days)	0 to 365. Old actions are removed a few at a time as the queue runs; use Purge to clear a big backlog.
Keep failed actions for (days)	0	0 to 730. With Action Scheduler 4 or newer, 0 keeps the default of 3 months. With older versions, 0 keeps them forever, and above 0 this power-up deletes older failed actions once a day.

Canceled actions that never ran are removed at the next clean-up whatever the setting says: Action Scheduler counts from the last run, which they never had.
With Action Scheduler 4, if another plugin makes it clean up failed actions together with finished ones, the failed period is ignored.

Keeping finished actions for a long time makes the actions table bigger, which slows queue runs and this monitor on busy stores. Keep failed actions long enough to look into them.

On phones

On a phone, each action stacks into a block instead of scrolling sideways.

Data

Item	What it is
Settings	This power-up’s saved settings. Deleting them brings back the defaults.
Queue summary	The Monitor tab’s counts, kept for 10 minutes.
Run now requests	Single-use keys that start a Run now in the background. Each expires after 2 minutes. On sites with a persistent object cache (Redis, Memcached) they live in the cache, so the entry reads “In the object cache; each expires after 2 minutes” and there’s nothing to delete.
Background job history	Finished and failed background jobs, kept by WooCommerce for troubleshooting.
Changes to scheduled actions	Actions you ran, retried, canceled, deleted or purged belong to Action Scheduler. Each change is noted in that action’s log.

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Customers

Emails

Store operations

Developer

Performance tools

Turn it on

Queue health

The lists

Actions

Masked arguments

Settings

On phones

Data

​Turn it on

​Queue health

​The lists

​Actions

​Masked arguments

​Settings

​On phones

​Data

Turn it on

Queue health

The lists

Actions

Masked arguments

Settings

On phones

Data