Background Monitor Setup

Swedish Business Central view name: Background Monitor Setup

Overview #

Background Job Queue Monitor enables monitoring and automatic handling of Job Queue Entries in Microsoft Business Central.
It is designed to detect jobs that are stuck, failing, or running longer than expected, and optionally restart them automatically and notify users by email.

The Background Monitor Setup page defines the global rules and behavior of the monitor.
It does not select which jobs are monitored, that is done per Job Queue Entry.

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Prerequisites #

Before the monitor can run:

1. The Background Job Queue Monitor extension must be installed
2. A valid license must be activated
   (found under Licenses in Background Monitor Setup)
3. Background Monitor Setup must be configured
4. The monitor must be enabled
5. The monitor schedule must be started manually by the customer

The schedule must be started by the customer using
Start/Update Job Queue Monitor Schedule.
This cannot be triggered externally.

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General #

These settings control how the Background Job Queue Monitor behaves globally.

Field	Description
Enabled	Activates or deactivates the Background Job Queue Monitor.
Job Queue Max Tries	Maximum number of restart attempts per job. Set to 0 for unlimited retries.
Job Queue General Runtime Max (min)	Maximum allowed runtime before a job is considered not responding and restarted. 0 disables runtime monitoring.
E-mail Recipient List	Email addresses that receive error notifications. Multiple addresses separated by ; or ,.
Email on Error	Must be enabled to send error notifications.
E-mail Re Occurrence (Minutes)	How often error emails are resent while the issue persists. Default: 15 minutes.
Daily E-mail Summary	Sends a daily summary of monitor events.
Daily E-mail Time	Time of day when the daily summary email is sent.

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Table Monitor Entries #

Table Monitor Entries allow volume-based monitoring. For example, detecting if too few or too many records are created within a time interval.

Typical use cases:

• Detect missing order inflow
• Detect unexpected data spikes
• Monitor integration throughput

Fields #

Field	Description
Enabled	Activates monitoring for this entry.
Code	Unique identifier for the monitor rule.
Description	Description of what is being monitored.
Table No.	Business Central table being monitored.
Monitor Start Time	Time when monitoring starts.
Monitor End Time	Time when monitoring ends.
Last Alarm Type	Type of the last triggered alarm.
Last Alarm Count	Number of alarms triggered.
Last Alarm Date Time	Date and time of the last alarm.
Normal Minimum Count Entries during Interval	Triggers an alarm if record count is below this value during the interval. 0 disables the check.
Normal Maximum Count Entries during Interval	Triggers an alarm if record count exceeds this value. Use a large number to disable max checks.

How to activate or configure Job Queue Monitor #

That is found in How to configure and activate Job Queue Monitor.