Telemetry
For teams running queues, cron jobs, imports, and async workers

Background Job Monitoring

Use structured events to see job throughput, retries, failures, dead letters, queue health, and p95 duration.

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Why this works
  • Find repeated failures by job name, queue, worker, and customer account.
  • Catch stalled jobs and retry loops before they become customer issues.
  • Give support and engineering one queryable history of async work.

Agent prompt

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Replace YOUR_API_KEY after signup, then ask the agent to run the product flow and verify the first events.

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Background Job Monitoring setup prompt

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Instrument background jobs and async workers with Telemetry.

Use /skill.md and this Telemetry API key: YOUR_API_KEY

Please log job_started, job_completed, and job_failed events with job_name, queue_name, attempt, status, duration_ms, scheduled_at, started_at, completed_at, item_count, retry_count, and error_type.

Create a dashboard showing throughput by job, failures by job, p95 duration, retry volume, oldest pending job, and dead-letter events. Add alerts for stalled jobs and repeated failures.

Setup steps

  1. 1Log job_started, job_completed, job_failed, and job_retried.
  2. 2Include queue, job name, attempt, duration, item count, and error type.
  3. 3Build a dashboard for throughput, failures, retries, and p95 duration.
  4. 4Add alerts for stalled jobs, repeated failures, and dead-letter creation.

Events to capture

job_startedjob_completedjob_failedjob_retrieddead_letter_createdcron_tick_failed

Questions unlocked

  • Which jobs fail or retry most often?
  • Which queues are falling behind?
  • Which customers are affected by failed background work?

Next step

Create the API key your agent will use

The free plan is enough to run the prompt, send test events, and review the first dashboard.

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