Crons Celery: automatically clean up tasks that are no longer in use

[gaprl]

Crons Celery: automatically clean up tasks that are no longer in use

[evanpurkhiser]

Ideally, our Celery integration would track these changes and automatically clean up any old environments or monitors for tasks that no longer exist.

This is probably not going to happen since the SDKs do not maintain state.

[szokeasaurusrex]

This is probably not going to happen since the SDKs do not maintain state.

I believe @evanpurkhiser is correct here: the SDK would need to have a list of the currently running cron jobs that are being monitored to implement this change, but we don't have such a list as far as I know. My understanding is that we emit checkins (including monitor upserts) as cron jobs are run, without storing any information about them in the SDK

[gaprl]

This is probably not going to happen since the SDKs do not maintain state.

I believe @evanpurkhiser is correct here: the SDK would need to have a list of the currently running cron jobs that are being monitored to implement this change, but we don't have such a list as far as I know. My understanding is that we emit checkins (including monitor upserts) as cron jobs are run, without storing any information about them in the SDK

Right, I realize this is tricky. Any ideas how we can make this easier? We've had this scenario come up a couple of times, not only from us internally, but from customers as well. Is a UI-based bulk management solution the best way forward?

[antonpirker]

Yes, a solution in the UI is the only way. The SDK does now know about config changes and I also think we should not implement something like this.