Monitoring Batch Classes in real time

Apex Jobs: Apex jobs can be used to monitor the status of all the running batch jobs in your org. Go to Setup -> Apex Jobs to view all the jobs in your org.

The apex jobs screen can be used to view the status of all the jobs. You can abort a job and check if a job has failed or not.

Status of Apex Jobs

The following are the available values of the status of an apex job :

Querying the Batch Job Status in Apex

In order to query the status of an apex job in apex code, we can use the AsyncApexJob object. This object has a record for each batch apex job that is processing in the system.
For example, let’s say we run a batch with the following code :

Id apexJobId = database.executeBatch(new MyBatchClass());

The database.executeBatch method returns a job id, which corresponds to a record in the AsyncApexJob object.

So, we can do something like this in the code :

AsyncApexJob jobInfo = [SELECT Status, NumberOfErrors
                                          FROM AsyncApexJob WHERE Id = :apexJobId];

We can also query by the name of the apex class name if we do not have the apex job id like this :

 AsyncApexJob jobInfo = [SELECT Status, NumberOfErrors
                                        FROM AsyncApexJob WHERE ApexClass.Name = ‘MyBatchClass’];