Schedule a flow based on a CRON expression.

You can add multiple Schedule triggers to a flow. The scheduler keeps track of the last scheduled date, allowing you to easily backfill missed executions. Keep in mind that if you change the trigger ID, the scheduler will consider this as a new schedule, and will start creating new scheduled executions from the current date. By default, all schedules will use UTC. If you need a different timezone, add the timezone property to your trigger definition.

yaml
type: "io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.schedule"

Examples

Schedule a flow every 15 minutes.

yaml
id: scheduled_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: sleep_randomly
    type: io.kestra.plugin.scripts.shell.Commands
    taskRunner:
      type: io.kestra.plugin.core.runner.Process
    commands:
      - echo "{{ trigger.date ?? execution.startDate }}"
      - sleep $((RANDOM % 60 + 1))

triggers:
  - id: every_15_minutes
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.Schedule
    cron: "*/15 * * * *"

Schedule a flow every day at 6: 30 AM

yaml
    id: daily_flow
    namespace: company.team

    tasks:
      - id: log
        type: io.kestra.plugin.core.log.Log
        message: It's {{ trigger.date ?? taskrun.startDate | date("HH:mm") }}

    triggers:
      - id: schedule
        type: io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.Schedule
        cron: 30 6 * * *

Schedule a flow every hour using the cron nickname @hourly.

yaml
id: scheduled_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: log_hello_world
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.log.Log
    message: Hello World! 🚀

triggers:
  - id: hourly
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.Schedule
    cron: "@hourly"

Schedule a flow on the first Monday of the month at 11 AM.

yaml
id: scheduled_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: log_hello_world
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.log.Log
    message: Hello World! 🚀

triggers:
  - id: schedule
    cron: "0 11 * * 1"
    conditions:
      - type: io.kestra.plugin.core.condition.DayWeekInMonth
        date: "{{ trigger.date }}"
        dayOfWeek: "MONDAY"
        dayInMonth: "FIRST"

Schedule a flow every day at 9: 00 AM and pause a schedule trigger after a failed execution using the stopAfter property.

yaml
id: business_critical_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: important_task
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.log.Log
    message: "if this run fails, disable the schedule until the issue is fixed"

triggers:
  - id: stop_after_failed
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.Schedule
    cron: "0 9 * * *"
    stopAfter:
      - FAILED

Properties

cron *string

The cron expression.

A standard unix cron expression with 5 fields (minutes precision). Using withSeconds: true you can switch to 6 fields and a seconds precision. Both 0 and 7 represent Sunday for the day-of-week field. Can also be a cron extension / nickname:

@yearly
@annually
@monthly
@weekly
@daily
@midnight
@hourly

conditions array

List of conditions in order to limit the flow trigger.

inputs object

The inputs to pass to the scheduled flow.

lateMaximumDelay string

Format duration

The maximum delay that is accepted.

If the scheduled execution didn't start after this delay (e.g. due to infrastructure issues), the execution will be skipped.

recoverMissedSchedules string

Possible Values

LASTNONEALL

What to do in case of missed schedules

ALL will recover all missed schedules, LAST will only recovered the last missing one, NONE will not recover any missing schedule. The default is ALL unless a different value is configured using the global plugin configuration.

stopAfter array

SubType string

Possible Values

CREATEDRUNNINGPAUSEDRESTARTEDKILLINGSUCCESSWARNINGFAILEDKILLEDCANCELLEDQUEUEDRETRYINGRETRIEDSKIPPEDBREAKPOINT

List of execution states after which a trigger should be stopped (a.k.a. disabled).

timezone string

Default Etc/UTC

The time zone identifier (i.e. the second column in the Wikipedia table) to use for evaluating the cron expression. Default value is the server default zone ID.

withSeconds boolean

Default false

Whether the cron expression has seconds precision

By default, the cron expression has 5 fields, setting this property to true will allow a 6th fields for seconds precision.

Outputs

date *string

Format date-time

The date of the current schedule.

next *string

Format date-time

The date of the next schedule.

previous *string

Format date-time

The date of the previous schedule.

Definitions

io.kestra.core.models.triggers.TimeWindow

deadline string

Format partial-time

SLA daily deadline

Use it only for DAILY_TIME_DEADLINE SLA.

endTime string

Format partial-time

SLA daily end time

Use it only for DAILY_TIME_WINDOW SLA.

startTime string

Format partial-time

SLA daily start time

Use it only for DAILY_TIME_WINDOW SLA.

type string

Default DURATION_WINDOW

Possible Values

DAILY_TIME_DEADLINEDAILY_TIME_WINDOWDURATION_WINDOWSLIDING_WINDOW

The type of the SLA

The default SLA is a sliding window (DURATION_WINDOW) with a window of 24 hours.

window string

Format duration

The duration of the window

Use it only for DURATION_WINDOW or SLIDING_WINDOW SLA. See ISO_8601 Durations for more information of available duration value. The start of the window is always based on midnight except if you set windowAdvance parameter. Eg if you have a 10 minutes (PT10M) window, the first window will be 00: 00 to 00: 10 and a new window will be started each 10 minutes

windowAdvance string

Format duration

The window advance duration

Use it only for DURATION_WINDOW SLA. Allow to specify the start time of the window Eg: you want a window of 6 hours (window=PT6H), by default the check will be done between: 00: 00 and 06: 00, 06: 00 and 12: 00, 12: 00 and 18: 00, and 18: 00 and 00: 00. If you want to check the window between 03: 00 and 09: 00, 09: 00 and 15: 00, 15: 00 and 21: 00, and 21: 00 and 3: 00, you will have to shift the window of 3 hours by settings windowAdvance: PT3H

Condition for a specific flow of an execution.

flowId *string

The flow id.

namespace *string

The namespace of the flow.

type *object

Condition for a flow namespace.

namespace *string

The namespace of the flow or the prefix if prefix is true.

type *object

prefix boolean

Default false

If we must look at the flow namespace by prefix (checked using startWith). The prefix is case sensitive.

Condition for a specific flow. Note that this condition is deprecated, use `io.kestra.plugin.core.condition.ExecutionFlow` instead.

flowId *string

The flow id.

namespace *string

The namespace of the flow.

type *object

Condition to allow events between two specific times.

type *object

after string

Format time

The time to test must be after this one.

Must be a valid ISO 8601 time with offset.

before string

Format time

The time to test must be before this one.

Must be a valid ISO 8601 time with offset.

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The time to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 time. By default, it will use the trigger date.

Condition that check labels of an execution.

labels *arrayobject

List of labels to match in the execution.

type *object

Condition based on the outputs of an upstream execution.

expression *string

type *object

Condition to allow events on weekend.

type *object

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The date to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 datetime. By default, it will use the trigger date.

Condition to have at least one condition validated.

conditions *array

Min items 1

The list of conditions to validate.

If any condition is true, it will allow the event's execution.

type *object

Condition for an execution namespace.

namespace *string

String against which to match the execution namespace depending on the provided comparison.

type *object

comparison string

Possible Values

EQUALSPREFIXSUFFIX

Comparison to use when checking if namespace matches. If not provided, it will use EQUALS by default.

prefix booleanstring

Default false

Whether to look at the flow namespace by prefix. Shortcut for comparison: PREFIX.

Only used when comparison is not set

Run a flow if the list of preconditions are met in a time window.

conditions *object

SubType

The list of preconditions to wait for

The key must be unique for a trigger because it will be used to store the previous evaluation result.

id *string

Validation RegExp ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*

Min length 1

A unique id for the condition

type *object

resetOnSuccess boolean

Default true

Whether to reset the evaluation results of SLA conditions after a first successful evaluation within the given time period.

By default, after a successful evaluation of the set of SLA conditions, the evaluation result is reset, so, the same set of conditions needs to be successfully evaluated again in the same time period to trigger a new execution. This means that to create multiple executions, the same set of conditions needs to be evaluated to true multiple times. You can disable this by setting this property to false so that, within the same period, each time one of the conditions is satisfied again after a successful evaluation, it will trigger a new execution.

timeWindow TimeWindow

Default

{
  "type": "DURATION_WINDOW"
}

Define the time period (or window) for evaluating preconditions.

You can set the type of sla to one of the following values:

DURATION_WINDOW: this is the default type. It uses a start time (windowAdvance) and end time (window) that are moving forward to the next interval whenever the evaluation time reaches the end time, based on the defined duration window. For example, with a 1-day window (the default option: window: PT1D), the SLA conditions are always evaluated during 24h starting at midnight (i.e. at time 00: 00: 00) each day. If you set windowAdvance: PT6H, the window will start at 6 AM each day. If you set windowAdvance: PT6H and you also override the window property to PT6H, the window will start at 6 AM and last for 6 hours — as a result, Kestra will check the SLA conditions during the following time periods: 06: 00 to 12: 00, 12: 00 to 18: 00, 18: 00 to 00: 00, and 00: 00 to 06: 00, and so on.
SLIDING_WINDOW: this option also evaluates SLA conditions over a fixed time window, but it always goes backward from the current time. For example, a sliding window of 1 hour (window: PT1H) will evaluate executions for the past hour (so between now and one hour before now). It uses a default window of 1 day.
DAILY_TIME_DEADLINE: this option declares that some SLA conditions should be met "before a specific time in a day". With the string property deadline, you can configure a daily cutoff for checking conditions. For example, deadline: "09: 00: 00" means that the defined SLA conditions should be met from midnight until 9 AM each day; otherwise, the flow will not be triggered.
DAILY_TIME_WINDOW: this option declares that some SLA conditions should be met "within a given time range in a day". For example, a window from startTime: "06: 00: 00" to endTime: "09: 00: 00" evaluates executions within that interval each day. This option is particularly useful for declarative definition of freshness conditions when building data pipelines. For example, if you only need one successful execution within a given time range to guarantee that some data has been successfully refreshed in order for you to proceed with the next steps of your pipeline, this option can be more useful than a strict DAG-based approach. Usually, each failure in your flow would block the entire pipeline, whereas with this option, you can proceed with the next steps of the pipeline as soon as the data is successfully refreshed at least once within the given time range.

Condition to exclude others conditions.

conditions *array

Min items 1

The list of conditions to exclude.

If any conditions is true, it will prevent the event's execution.

type *object

Condition to execute tasks on a specific day of the week relative to the current month (first, last, ...)

dayInMonth *string

Possible Values

FIRSTLASTSECONDTHIRDFOURTH

Are you looking for the first or the last day in the month?

dayOfWeek *string

Possible Values

MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAYSUNDAY

The day of week.

type *object

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The date to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 datetime. By default, it will use the trigger date.

Condition based on variable expression.

expression *string

type *object

Condition to allow events on a particular day of the week.

dayOfWeek *string

Possible Values

MONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAYSUNDAY

The day of week.

type *object

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The date to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 datetime. By default, it will use the trigger date.

Condition based on execution status.

type *object

in array

SubType string

Possible Values

CREATEDRUNNINGPAUSEDRESTARTEDKILLINGSUCCESSWARNINGFAILEDKILLEDCANCELLEDQUEUEDRETRYINGRETRIEDSKIPPEDBREAKPOINT

List of states that are authorized.

notIn array

SubType string

Possible Values

CREATEDRUNNINGPAUSEDRESTARTEDKILLINGSUCCESSWARNINGFAILEDKILLEDCANCELLEDQUEUEDRETRYINGRETRIEDSKIPPEDBREAKPOINT

List of states that aren't authorized.

Condition to allow events between two specific datetime values.

type *object

after string

Format date-time

The date to test must be after this one.

Must be a valid ISO 8601 datetime with the zone identifier (use 'Z' for the default zone identifier).

before string

Format date-time

The date to test must be before this one.

Must be a valid ISO 8601 datetime with the zone identifier (use 'Z' for the default zone identifier).

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The date to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 datetime. By default, it will use the trigger date.

Condition that matches if any taskRun has retry attempts.

type *object

in array

SubType string

Possible Values

CREATEDRUNNINGPAUSEDRESTARTEDKILLINGSUCCESSWARNINGFAILEDKILLEDCANCELLEDQUEUEDRETRYINGRETRIEDSKIPPEDBREAKPOINT

List of states that are authorized.

notIn array

SubType string

Possible Values

CREATEDRUNNINGPAUSEDRESTARTEDKILLINGSUCCESSWARNINGFAILEDKILLEDCANCELLEDQUEUEDRETRYINGRETRIEDSKIPPEDBREAKPOINT

List of states that aren't authorized.

Condition to allow events on public holidays.

type *object

country string

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. If not set, it uses the country code from the default locale.

It uses the Jollyday library for public holiday calendar that supports more than 70 countries.

date string

Default {{ trigger.date }}

The date to test.

Can be any variable or any valid ISO 8601 datetime. By default, it will use the trigger date.

subDivision string

ISO 3166-2 country subdivision (e.g., provinces and states) code.

It uses the Jollyday library for public holiday calendar that supports more than 70 countries.