Cron Scheduler

Mage2Expert Cron Scheduler is an extension for Magento 2 that gives admins full visibility and control over cron directly from the admin panel — no CLI or SSH access required. It brings together a live history grid of every scheduled task, a complete list of every job registered by every installed module, and a visual execution timeline, then lets you go a step further than simply monitoring: override any job's cron schedule, enable or disable jobs in bulk, and run any job on demand, all without touching a single file. A "Last Cron Activity" banner and color-coded status badges keep the health of your cron at a glance on every screen. When something does fail, the extension can automatically email your team so nobody has to notice a broken cron job by accident. Every screen and action is protected by its own admin permission, and the extension can be switched off with a single toggle — leaving your saved overrides and history untouched — so it is always safe to try. 

Features

• Cron Tasks List — a full admin grid over Magento's cron_schedule table, showing job code, a color-coded status badge, execution messages, and every timestamp (created, scheduled, executed, finished). Filter, search, and sort like any standard Magento grid, and mass-delete old history rows.
• Last Cron Activity Banner — a persistent notice on every screen showing how long ago cron actually ran, so a stalled system crontab is obvious at a glance instead of discovered days later.
• Run Cron — dispatch bin/magento cron:run as a background process with a single click, exactly as your system crontab would, without waiting on the next scheduled minute. Available on the Tasks List, Jobs List, and Timeline pages.
• Cron Jobs List — every job declared in every module's crontab.xml collected into one compact grid, with Group, Instance, Method, effective Schedule, and a color-coded Status badge — no more digging through vendor code to see what is actually scheduled.
• Per-Job Schedule Overrides — click the inline edit icon next to any job's schedule to replace its native cron expression with a custom one. The override is stored and enforced automatically the next time the schedule is generated, with no code deployment.
• Bulk Enable / Disable — select one or many jobs and enable or disable them together from the grid's mass actions, reversibly, without editing crontab.xml or deploying a patch.
• Run Any Job On Demand — execute a single job immediately, outside of its schedule, from the grid's Run Job action or from a dedicated CLI command, without affecting any other job's run.
• Visual Cron Timeline — every execution plotted as a color-coded mark (Pending, Running, Success, Missed, Error) along a shared time axis, one row per job, with a hover tooltip showing full execution detail.
• Live "Now" Marker — a rolling window covering recent activity and already-generated near-future jobs, with a red marker line showing the current moment and zoom controls to inspect busy execution bursts.
• Store-Timezone Aware — the timeline and its tooltips always render using the timezone configured in Store Locale Options, keeping results consistent no matter where an admin user is logged in from.
• Automatic Failure Email Notifications — a background check scans for new cron errors and sends a single batched email to your configured recipients, throttled by a configurable interval so failures never turn into inbox spam. Sender identity, sender name, subject, and the email content template are all configurable, with {{job_code}}, {{executed_at}}, and {{message}} variables substituted per failed job.
• Master Enable/Disable Switch — turn off schedule overrides and notifications without uninstalling. All grids stay fully viewable and every saved override is preserved and re-applied the instant the extension is re-enabled.
• ACL-Protected — a dedicated admin permission resource for every screen and every mutating action, so you can grant read-only or full access per admin role.
• Zero Core Code Modifications — schedule overrides are enforced through a plugin on Magento's own cron configuration reader. No class rewrites, no core patches, safe alongside Magento upgrades and other extensions.

How It Works

After enabling the extension, open Stores → Cron Scheduler → Cron Jobs List to see every job Magento already knows about. Click the small edit icon next to any job's schedule to set a custom cron expression, or select one or more rows and use the mass-action Enable / Disable to turn jobs off without removing them. Changes take effect the next time cron generates that job's schedule — there is nothing to deploy and nothing to flush. Need to see what actually happened? Stores → Cron Scheduler → Cron Tasks List shows the raw execution history, and Stores → Cron Scheduler → Cron Timeline turns that same history into a visual, color-coded chart centered on a live "now" marker. 

Cron Tasks List & Cron Jobs List

The two grids answer two different questions. The Cron Tasks List answers "what has run, and when" — a live view of Magento's own cron_schedule table with color-coded status badges, a Last Cron Activity banner, and a Run Cron button to trigger a fresh run on demand. The Cron Jobs List answers "what is configured to run, and how" — every job from every module, with its native and (if set) modified schedule side by side, a color-coded Enabled/Disabled badge, an inline edit icon to override the schedule, bulk enable/disable via mass actions, and a Run Job action to execute it immediately. 

Cron Timeline

The timeline gives busy stores a way to see cron activity at a glance instead of scrolling through hundreds of grid rows. Each job gets its own row; each execution is a colored mark positioned by time and sized by duration, so long-running or frequently failing jobs stand out immediately. A rolling window covers recent activity plus already-generated near-future jobs, with a red "now" marker line pinpointing the current moment. Use + Zoom In / − Zoom Out to adjust the scale and Refresh to re-center on the latest activity — all rendered in your store's configured timezone for consistent results across admin users. 

Failure Notifications

Turn on Error Notifications in the extension's configuration section to receive an automatic email whenever a cron job errors. Notifications are batched and throttled by a configurable interval, so a burst of related failures produces one clear email instead of a flood of alerts, while no failure ever goes unreported. The sender identity, sender name, subject, and email content are all configurable, with the content template repeated once per failed job and substituted with that job's own {{job_code}}, {{executed_at}}, and {{message}} values. 

Use Cases

• Store operations teams — confirm that indexers, order grid sync, and email queues are actually running, without asking a developer to check the server.
• Agencies managing multiple stores — quickly audit cron health across client sites from the admin panel instead of SSH-ing into each server.
• Sites with third-party module bloat — see every job every installed extension registered, spot ones that run too often, and throttle or disable them without editing vendor code.
• Incident response — use the timeline's live "now" marker and rolling window to reconstruct exactly what ran (or failed to run) in the minutes around a reported issue.
• Proactive monitoring — let automatic failure emails catch a broken job the same day it starts failing, instead of discovering it weeks later.