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# Scheduled action monitor
> See whether WooCommerce's background jobs are keeping up, and run, retry or clean them up
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](/admin-powerups/developer-tools).
## Turn it on
1. Go to **WooCommerce → Powerups** and switch on **Scheduled action monitor** in the **Developer** group.
2. 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](/admin-powerups/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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