Benefits

• Submit job to trigger versatile target types
  With Job Scheduling, you can execute jobs in job pools to trigger Job Functions, Webhooks (any third-party URL), Circuits, or AppSail services. By triggering Job Functions, you can invoke any custom business logic you have coded in job function at a scheduled time. By triggering circuits, you can trigger complete workflows you have configured using Catalyst Serverless’ Circuit component. By triggering AppSail services, you can invoke entire microservices or applications you have hosted using Catalyst AppSail service.

• Execute jobs instantly
  Job Scheduling allows you to configure crons that can submit jobs to a job pool with time intervals, as short as one minute. You can also execute jobs that trigger multiple endpoints in different job pools parallely. You only need to handle the configuration and submit action of the job, Catalyst will handle all the backend requirements automatically.

• Configure and submit jobs with the simplest steps
  You can create, configure, and submit jobs using the highly intuitive Builder feature present in the Console. You can create any kind of Job, and you have a wide range of inputs you can provide to precisely choose the time period or interval when you wish the Job to be executed and the end-point you wish to trigger, all in a few steps.

• Submit jobs through code
  With Dynamic Crons and the Catalyst SDK (Java, Node.js, and Python) support, you can code crons to get created dynamically that can submit jobs during runtime. As is with the majority of the Catalyst components, you need only code the logic to create the cron or submit the job; the remaining backend requirements will be automatically handled by Catalyst.

• Seamlessly scalable
  Catalyst servers can seamlessly handle heavy workloads, and they can automatically scale up or down based on the requirements. This enables developers to solely focus on configuring the cron job and coding the logic, without needing to perform any additional tasks to handle the backend setup or maintenance. Catalyst’s cron jobs execute seamlessly regardless of the load, as they are executed on Zoho’s tried-and-tested, reliable infrastructure.

• Immediate and Precise Alerts
  Catalyst provides you with the advantage of configuring custom, automated alerts to be received when a cron encounters an exception, failure, or time out through Application Alerts. Catalyst will send these alerts immediately via email upon the cases you specify. This enables you to keep a track of the cron jobs in all your projects easily and implement immediate fixes during failures. Along with setting an alert, you can also configure the number of retry attempts that need to occur automatically in the event of a failure. This feature provides you with a chance to execute your job again successfully if it gets interrupted by factors like network disruption, loss of network, etc.