Monitoring Background Jobs

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name: Monitoring Background Jobs
description: Monitors CockroachDB background job health by identifying failed, paused, and long-running jobs using SHOW JOBS and SHOW AUTOMATIC JOBS. Surfaces schema changes, backups/restores, automatic statistics collection, and…
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# Monitoring Background Jobs

Part of the **CockroachDB Claude Plugin Skills** pack by Cockroach Labs (`cockroachdb/claude-plugin`).

Monitors CockroachDB background job health by identifying failed, paused, and long-running jobs using SHOW JOBS and SHOW AUTOMATIC JOBS. Surfaces schema changes, backups/restores, automatic statistics collection, and…

This catalog entry summarizes the skill for discovery. Get the full skill — including any bundled scripts and resources — from the source:

Full skill & source: https://github.com/cockroachdb/claude-plugin/tree/main/skills/cockroachdb-observability-and-diagnostics/monitoring-background-jobs