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title: Overview
slug: JH3U-overview
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createdAt: 2025-06-26T07:04:42.427Z
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Aiden supports a robust system for scheduling and executing recurring tasks within the Aiden platform. It allows you to automate queries to be run at specified intervals, leveraging the existing Aiden capabilities through a scheduled execution environment.

Aiden supports two types of task definitions - `scheduled` and `event-based` tasks. As the name suggests, scheduled tasks run according to a predefined schedule. A task can be run daily, weekly, or on any custom schedule specified for the task. While event-based tasks can be triggered from your DevOps workflows using a webhook URL provided by Aiden.

## Creating Tasks

Each task is configured with a list of the following fields -

- Name
- Description
- Trigger (`schedule` or `event`)
- Cron Schedule (required only for scheduled tasks)
- Retries (defaults to 3)
- Timeout (defaults to 2 mins)
- Contact Points
- Task Step
  - Expert (defaults to Aiden. AWS, Prometheus, ObserveNow, etc experts are also supported)
  - Action

:::hint{type="info"}
The success or failure notification of each task execution is forwarded to the configured [Contact Points](https://docs.opsverse.io/iNid-contact-points) 
:::

### Configuration Steps 

1. Navigate to **Tasks** in the sidebar
2. Click on `Add Task`
3. Configure all the required fields for creating the task
4. Click **Save** to create the task

The following image shows a task that analyzes the AWS cost of the organization every day at 6 AM.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/lXn9LpVt8_5bY6sXyeAS5-HKBpq7CCvCtEJvVwFJBcc-20250630-072506.jpg)

## Tasks Execution History 

The result of each task execution can be viewed in the `Task Execution History` for each task. To check the execution history, click on the History icon on the task card. The following image shows a sample of the task execution history - 

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/lXn9LpVt8_5bY6sXyeAS5-3vpIsYOYC1eqKMFd7D0wN-20250630-075628.jpg)