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Take control of Magento's cron jobs from the admin panel — view every scheduled job, reschedule or disable any of them without touching code, monitor execution history, and run or queue a job on demand.

DotCommerce_CronScheduler is a single, self‑contained module with no third‑party dependencies. It is built on Magento's native cron tables and service contracts, so it stays out of the way and upgrades cleanly.

Features

Cron Jobs List

A grid of every cron job declared across all installed modules (crontab.xml), kept in sync automatically.

• Columns: ID, Job Code, Group, Instance (class), Method, Schedule (original cron expression), Modified Schedule, Status.
• Reschedule any job — inline‑edit the Modified Schedule to override a job's cron expression. The original schedule is preserved, so the override is fully reversible (clear the field to revert).
• Enable / disable any job — inline‑edit the Status. A disabled job is removed from Magento's live cron configuration entirely, so it never runs.
• Cron expression validation — modified schedules are validated on save, with real per‑field range checks (e.g. minute 0–59, hour 0–23) that reject expressions Magento would otherwise accept but silently never run.
• Filters on every column and mass actions: Enable, Disable, Delete.
• Run Job (row action) — force‑run a job immediately, in‑process, with execution time and memory profiling recorded to the run history. Runs regardless of the job's schedule or enabled state.
• Schedule Now (row action) — queue a job to run on the next cron tick (non‑blocking; safe for long‑running jobs).

Cron Tasks List

A read‑only view of Magento's native cron_schedule execution history.

• Columns: ID, Job Code, Status, Messages, Created At, Scheduled At, Executed At, Finished At.
• Color‑coded statuses — Success (green), Pending / Running (grey), Error / Missed (red).
• Date‑range filters on all four datetime columns, plus status and job‑code filters.
• Mass Delete to prune history.

Last Cron Activity monitor

An "is‑cron‑alive" banner shown above the grids. It reports how long ago cron last ran successfully, so a stalled cron is immediately obvious.

Automatic synchronization

A lightweight heartbeat cron (every minute) reconciles the job registry with Magento's configuration: new jobs are added, changed schedules are refreshed, and removed jobs are cleaned up (along with their orphaned schedule rows).

Requirements

Installation

Via Composer (recommended)

composer require dot-commerce/magento2-cron-scheduler
bin/magento module:enable DotCommerce_CronScheduler
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile        # production mode only
bin/magento cache:flush

Manual installation

1. Copy the module into your Magento installation:

   app/code/DotCommerce/CronScheduler
   

2. Enable it and run setup:

   bin/magento module:enable DotCommerce_CronScheduler
   bin/magento setup:upgrade
   bin/magento setup:di:compile      # production mode only
   bin/magento cache:flush

Note: This extension manages cron jobs but does not replace the system cron that drives them. Make sure Magento cron is configured and running (bin/magento cron:run, or a system crontab entry / scheduler add‑on). The Last Cron Activity banner will tell you whether cron is alive.

Usage

After installation, the screens are available in the Magento admin under:

• System → Cron Scheduler → Cron Jobs List
• System → Cron Scheduler → Cron Tasks List

Rescheduling a job

Open Cron Jobs List, find the job, and edit its Modified Schedule column with a standard cron expression (e.g. */15 * * * *). Save. The job now runs on your expression instead of its default. Clear the field to restore the original.

Disabling a job

Set a job's Status to Disabled (inline, or via the mass action). It is removed from Magento's live cron configuration and will not be scheduled until re‑enabled.

Running a job on demand

Use the row actions on Cron Jobs List:

• Run Job — executes the job right now and reports how long it took.
• Schedule Now — queues the job to run on the next cron tick.

Uninstall

bin/magento module:disable DotCommerce_CronScheduler
composer remove dot-commerce/magento2-cron-scheduler   # if installed via Composer
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento cache:flush

License

This module is licensed under the MIT License.

Author

Mudassar Iqbal — miqbal@dotcommerce.co © Dot Commerce