# Scheduled Tasks

# Scheduled Tasks

Scheduled tasks run work periodically inside a Curiosity Workspace environment. They are commonly used for:

• periodic ingestion (hourly/daily sync)
• reindexing and maintenance operations
• enrichment jobs (NLP reparse, entity linking, batch similarity)
• reporting and aggregation

# What makes a good scheduled task

• Idempotent: reruns are safe.
• Bounded: does not process unbounded amounts of data without pagination.
• Observable: emits logs/metrics and failure reasons.
• Permission-aware: respects access control where needed.

# Task categories

• Ingestion tasks
  • call connectors or integration logic on a schedule
• Maintenance tasks
  • rebuild indexes, backfills, schema migrations (with care)
• Enrichment tasks
  • reparse fields with updated NLP pipelines
  • compute derived relationships
• Analytics tasks
  • compute dashboards and cached aggregates

# Configuring scheduled tasks

# Cron-like Scheduling

Tasks use standard Cron expressions for timing:

• 0 * * * *: Run every hour.
• 0 0 * * *: Run every day at midnight.
• 0 0 * * 0: Run every Sunday at midnight.

# Setting up a Task

1. Navigate to Admin → Scheduled Tasks.
2. Click New Task.
3. Select the Task Type (e.g., Ingest, Reindex, Backup).
4. Enter the Cron Expression.
5. Configure any type-specific parameters (e.g., connector ID, backup path).
6. Enable the task and monitor its execution in the logs.

# Operational Reliability

• Automatic Backups: Schedule daily backups to a secure off-site location.
• Periodic Re-indexing: Schedule re-indexing during low-traffic periods to ensure search relevance is maintained.
• Ingestion Sync: Align ingestion tasks with the update frequency of your source systems.

# Next steps

• Keep ingestion consistent over time: Ingestion Pipelines
• Run custom logic safely: Custom Endpoints