Show Backgroundprocesses in dashboard

[ogborstad]

• Is it possible to get background processes shown in the dashboard?
• Is it possible to add a WriteLine method to BackgroundProcessContext similar to PerformContext?

[gandarez]

What exactly data you want to show?

[ogborstad]

Pretty similiar to what is shown for other jobs:

• List of all background processes registered
• What server they are running on
• Last run completion timestamp
• Log

Being able to monitor and health check background processes is important from an operations point of view. Lets say for example that some servers are more "important" than others based on their backgroundprocesses.

[odinserj]

Scheduling this to 2.0 release, this feature requires a lot of breaking changes for storage api. I've tried to implement this without breaking changes, but failed.

[gandarez]

@odinserj What's the expected release date?

[odinserj]

Don't know yet. There are a lot of TODOs for the 1.x line. Currently planning what to do in 2016 – better project management is required.