> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help-center-starter.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Scheduled tasks

> Cron-style schedules, timezone handling, and backoff.

Scheduled tasks run without a human click: nightly syncs, weekly digests, or maintenance windows. Get timezones right once, then monitor failures—silent misses are harder to spot than user-triggered errors.

## Schedules

Use cron expressions or friendly presets. All times respect the project timezone unless overridden explicitly for global teams.

### Cadence choices

Prefer off-peak windows for heavy jobs. If you need “every hour,” confirm your platform’s minimum interval and whether missed runs catch up or skip.

### Holidays

Some teams pause schedules on holidays via a calendar flag or a wrapper rule—otherwise your “Monday report” might fire on a quiet day with no fresh data.

## Daylight saving

Ambiguous local times may skip or repeat—prefer UTC for critical jobs. If you must stay local, document the DST transition dates for your region and test around them.

### Jitter

Add small random delay when many schedules align at midnight to avoid thundering herds against shared databases.

## Monitoring

Failed runs surface in the automation console with logs for debugging. Wire alerts to the same channel as user-facing incidents when the job protects revenue or compliance.

### Runbooks

Link a short runbook from each alert: what failed, what to check first, and who owns the downstream integration.