Artisan command to prune stale jobs in Laravel 8.x
In Laravel, when your queued jobs fail after a job has exceeded the number of attempts, it will be inserted into the failed_jobs database table (if you have set it up).
This is to provision for retrying those jobs at a later time using the following command.
php artisan queue:retry 5
Here 5 is the ID of the failed job that you want to retry or you can also provide the range of IDs as well using --range options like so.
$ php artisan queue:retry --range=5-10
Now, there might be situations where there would be a lot of failed jobs in the database and some of which are too old that they are not relevant anymore. It’s best to remove those entries and that’s where this new Artisan command in Laravel 8.x comes into the picture.
The queue:prune-failed command
Mohamed Said has implemented this Artisan command called queue:prune-failed in the recent minor release using which you can remove stale failed job entries from the failed_jobs table.
$ php artisan queue:prune-failed
Now, by default, this command will remove the entries which are older than 24 hours but if you want you can also specify an --hours option with the number of hours to retain jobs data.
So, if you want to retain jobs data of only the last 5 hours and remove the rest of the entries, you can do it like so.
$ php artisan queue:prune-failed --hours=5
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