System jobs, also known as asynchronous operations, are the way to create and manage the execution of asynchronous system operations. These operations include the execution of workflows, plugins running asynchronously, or other background jobs. These operations are managed in the database through records in the asyncoperation entity. The following screenshot shows the standard System Jobs view:
You can filter the view of jobs by entity and also using the predefined system views available. These entity includes a listing of all the jobs as well as jobs by status. This makes it easier to find a particular job.
On opening a particular job, besides the status details about the job owner you can see the time when it was created and completed. For jobs that fail and are set to automatically retry, you have a Retry Count field presented on the job details too. The following screenshot shows the Calculate rollup fields for the account entity job details:
