Automations

Cron schedules

How to schedule an automation to run at specific times.

Auditer uses standard 5-field cron expressions: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week. Timezone is configurable per automation.

Field ranges#

minute

0-59

hour

0-23

day of month

1-31

month

1-12 or jan-dec

day of week

0-6 (0 = Sunday) or sun-sat

0 8 * * *

Every day at 8:00 AM.

0 9 * * mon

Every Monday at 9:00 AM.

*/15 * * * *

Every 15 minutes.

0 12 1 * *

First day of every month at noon.

0 0 * * fri,sat

Every Friday and Saturday at midnight.

Set the timezone field to any IANA name like America/New_York, Europe/London, Asia/Tokyo. Defaults to UTC.

Debouncing

The scheduler ticks every 30 seconds and ensures each automation fires at most once per matching minute.