Managing long-running Application Engine processes

In the Application Engine Processes dashboard, you can:

  • view details of long-running Application Engine processes.
  • stop the processes (gracefully).
  • force stop the processes. Force stopping a process stops it immediately and may leave it in an inconsistent state.

The list of processes is cleared after a defined time or if the Log Service worker or managers is restarted.

  1. Select Dashboards > Farm Administration > Application Engine Processes.
    The dashboard lists any running processes. Refresh the dashboard to update the list of processes and their statuses.

    If you exceed the limit of concurrent long-running processes, the additional processes are queued until the execution capacity becomes available. The queued process receives the Created status.

    You can monitor and cancel the queued processes.

  2. You can perform these actions with the long-running Application Engine processes:
    Stop a process
    To stop a process, select the check box of the process and click Stop.
    Force stop a process
    To force stop a process, select the check box of the process and click Force Stop.
    View application logs
    To view the application logs for one or more processes, select the check boxes of the processes and click View Logs.
    Note: The log entries for the selected processes are displayed in the View Application Logs dashboard. You cannot view the logs of processes that do not have a correlation ID.
    View process parameters
    If a process has parameters, to view the parameters click the entry for the process in the Parameters column of the grid to view the parameters and their values.
    View process logs
    To view application logs, select processes and click the View Log button .
    Note: The View Log button launches the log viewer only for processes that have a Correlation ID. Correlation IDs are automatically generated only for background processes. To generate a Correlation ID for a synchronous or asynchronous process, create and start a custom log filter that includes the Execute Process event ID at the Information level. To display the Correlation ID column, and other columns, in the grid, click Columns and select the appropriate check boxes.