While browsing Holistics, you see a Slow Dashboard and curiously click it
After a while, you see that the Dashboard is actually slow () and go back to browsing
Before:
The Job that you spawned during your visiting keeps running and occupying a Job Worker, blocking it from being used for other Reports (that are actually in need!)
After: Introducing Auto Cancellation for Unused Jobs
Set the Unused Job Timeout (e.g. to 3 seconds), and voilà, any lingering job gets axed, automatically, freeing the Job Worker for other important tasks!
p/s: Why hasn’t Holistics been doing this until now?
The old behavior (of keeping Jobs running after leaving the page) was implemented many years ago.
Customers may still benefit from this legacy behavior: They can visit Dashboard A, let the Jobs run, then go to use Dashboard B. When they have finished using Dashboard B, they can come back to Dashboard A that has already finished running and is readily cached.
However, after reviewing, we find the legacy behavior more often unexpected and wasteful for the resources, especially when users pretty much have no control over it.
Besides, there are other alternatives that are much more controllable/manageable:
Thus, we have revised this problem and implemented a toggleable Auto Cancellation that you can enable per your needs!
For new Holistics customer, the Auto Cancellation will be enabled by default.
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Auto Cancellation for Unused Jobs