Hermes background jobs

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  • Updated May 21, 2026
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    • These background jobs are associated with Hermes settings. The table lists their default run frequencies and descriptions.

    Table 1. Hermes Settings - background jobs
    Job name Frequency Description
    Hermes Active Cluster Heartbeat Every 10 min Sends periodic heartbeats to indicate node availability and monitors cluster health status.
    Hermes Health Status Check Every 1 min Monitors the health of Hermes services and checks that all components are running correctly.
    Auto Flush hermes_system_status Scheduled Automatically cleans up old records from the hermes_system_status table.
    Hermes Failover State Refresh Job On trigger Monitors and updates the failover state across nodes to help recover from node failures.
    Hermes IP ACL Publish Job Every 5 min Publishes IP ACL updates. Only runs when IP ACL is enabled.
    Auto Flush hermes_ip_filtering_audit Scheduled Automatically cleans up old records from the hermes_ip_filtering_audit table.
    Hermes Kafka Client Metrics Collection Every 2 min Collects detailed Apache Kafka client metrics across all nodes.
    Hermes Usage Metrics Aggregation and Clean Up Daily Daily at 4AM GMT Aggregates hourly metrics into daily summaries and cleans up old hourly data after aggregation.
    Hermes Usage Metrics Aggregation Monthly 2nd day of month, 4:00 a.m. GMT Aggregates daily metrics into monthly summaries.
    Hermes Flush Expired Idle Consumers Hourly Cleans up inactive consumer connections to free system resources and prevent resource leaks.
    Auto Flush hermes_metrics_collection Scheduled Automatically cleans up records older than approximately 1 day from the hermes_metrics_collection table.
    Hermes Periodic Purge Every 10 min Performs regular cleanup of temporary data.
    Hermes Metadata Collection Every 30 min Collects and updates topic, cluster, consumer, producer, broker, and partition metadata.
    Auto Flush hermes_usage_metrics (Daily) Scheduled Deletes hermes_usage_metrics records older than approximately 1 year.
    Auto Flush hermes_usage_metrics (Yearly) Scheduled Deletes hermes_usage_metrics records older than approximately 3 months where roll_up_type = 1.
    Hermes Topics Util Scheduled Synchronizes topic metadata across the cluster and verifies that all nodes have consistent topic configurations.