Actions & Scheduled Jobs

Cron schedules, one-time jobs, retries, and invocation history.

What are Actions?

An Action calls a path on one of your services asynchronously, at times you choose — either recurring on a cron schedule or once at a specific moment. Each run…

How do I run a cron job on Forte?

Create a recurring Action: pick the target service and path, enter a cron expression like "0 9 * * *", and choose an IANA timezone such as America/New_York so…

How does my service know a request came from Forte?

Check the X-Forte-Trusted header: Forte sets it to 1 on requests it originates and strips all X-Forte-* headers from inbound traffic it didn't send, so its…

How do I test an action without waiting for its schedule?

Use "invoke now" — from the console, "forte actions invoke" in the CLI, or createActionInvocation in the SDK — to trigger a one-off run immediately, exactly…