Weekly Schedules

* Scheduling Guide

Weekly schedules target a specific day and time each week using the day-of-week field. 0 9 * * 1 runs at 9 AM every Monday; 0 0 * * 5 runs at midnight every Friday. The most important consideration is which day aligns with the business cycle: weekly reports are typically generated on Monday morning to summarise the prior week, while cleanup and archival jobs are often scheduled on Sunday night to start the week with a clean slate. Weekly jobs have a seven-day feedback loop — a failure on Monday may not be noticed until the following Monday unless you have alerting. For critical weekly jobs, configure failure notifications that fire within hours of a missed or failed run, not at the next scheduled execution.