What Attention Scheduler Health Means

Attention is a specific QCTNH scheduler-snapshot condition, not a generic opinion about the entire Joomla site.

What Attention means

No current active lock was found, but one or more eligible web-runnable tasks have lock timestamps at or older than the Scheduler timeout threshold. QCTNH treats these as soft/stale locks that deserve investigation.

What to inspect

  1. Open Joomla Scheduled Tasks and identify the affected locked task.
  2. Compare the lock age to Joomla’s configured scheduler timeout.
  3. Review the owning extension/task logs for an interrupted PHP request, timeout, or failed process.
  4. Use Joomla/extension-supported recovery rather than manually deleting locks unless you understand the consequences.

Correlate with Recent Activity

When What Attention Scheduler Health Means looks wrong, match it with Recent Activity and the owning task’s logs at the same time. QCTNH stores event timestamps in UTC and renders them once into Joomla’s configured site timezone, making it easier to compare registration, WebCron completion, pause/resume, and origin events with Joomla/PHP logs.

That timeline is often enough to distinguish “service never reached the site” from “Joomla ran something and the task itself failed.”

Community Discussion

Want to compare scheduler workflows, share practical tips, or discuss how you use this QCTNH feature? Visit the QC Task Nudge & Health Community. For private support, bug reports, account-specific issues, or feature requests, use the QuantaCade support system.