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Closes #3149.

Adds a DAG-level restart_policy (no, always, unless-stopped) that makes
the scheduler keep one run of a DAG alive.

restart_policy: always
restart_wait_sec: 5
hist_retention_runs: 100
steps:
  - run: python3 worker.py

Behavior

  • The scheduler queues the first run of a service DAG at once, then a new run
    restart_wait_sec after the previous one ends, whatever its status. Runs go
    through the DAG's queue with the trigger type restart.
  • It starts no run while the DAG has a live process, a queued item or an
    active run. Neither does anyone else: dagu start, enqueue and retry, their
    API requests and MCP actions, and webhooks are refused while the latest run is
    active (409 from the API). The current definition decides, also for a run
    snapshot or a spec in a request. A run also refuses to start next to the live
    process of another run of the DAG on its host, which closes the race between a
    manual start and a restart there.
  • unless-stopped: no run follows a run that an operator stopped. A stop from
    dagu stop, the API/UI, or the coordinator for a distributed run leaves an
    abort request on the attempt, and that is what the scheduler looks at. Other
    aborted runs are restarted after the wait: an unmet DAG-level precondition, a
    scheduler shutdown with signal propagation, a queued restart dropped while the
    DAG was suspended. A manual start brings a stopped service back.
  • A suspended DAG, or a paused scheduler, gets no new run. Resuming restarts it
    once the wait has elapsed since its latest run ended. Suspending does not stop
    the active run, and is the way to stop a service between two runs (dagu stop
    only stops a live run).
  • Validation: restart_wait_sec of at least 1; no schedule (any form; an
    empty one is fine) and no DAG-level retry_policy; refused in the base
    configuration, where it would turn every DAG into a service; a warning when no
    history retention is set.
  • dagu restart refuses a service DAG: it would start a run next to the
    scheduler's own restart.
  • Whether a run is due follows from the latest run, so a scheduler restart or a
    failover resumes where the previous scheduler stopped. Restart run IDs are
    derived from the run they follow (and are fixed for the first run), so
    evaluating a restart twice starts one run.

specs/080-restart-policy.md defines the field, its validation and the
restart command. Like spec 063, it leaves scheduler dispatch out of its scope;
the scheduler behavior is covered by integration tests. Spec 017 lists the new
restart trigger type.

Commits

  1. Add spec 080.
  2. Add the field: ir.RestartPolicy, parsing, validation, base
    configuration, warning, JSON schema.
  3. Keep the DAGs alive: RestartScanner, the restart trigger type,
    deterministic run IDs, suspension of queued restart runs.
  4. API and UI: restartPolicy / restartWaitSec, the DAG index
    (IndexVersion 5), the active filter, the UI.
  5. Conformance suite.
  6. Read the status to compare and swap without the shared cache: a
    pre-existing data race that the new integration tests hit under -race.
    CompareAndSwapLatestAttemptStatus let the caller change the status it got
    from the history file cache, while other readers held the same object (the
    retry scanner, here, when a queued run is dropped for a suspended DAG). It
    comes with its own regression test and can go in a separate PR if you prefer.
  7. Stop an unless-stopped service only when an operator stops it:
    unless-stopped first took every aborted run for a stop, so a restart dropped
    from the queue during a suspension stopped the service for good.
  8. Refuse the restart command for a service DAG.
  9. Keep spec 080 to the restart_policy field, and accept an empty schedule.
  10. Show the restart policy in MCP and word the UI for services.

Tests

  • Unit: ir, spec (validation, inheritance, warning), service/scheduler
    (decision table, run IDs, scanner with fakes, logs), persis (DAG index round
    trip, compare and swap), cmd (restart refused), mcp, UI (dagSchedule,
    DAGAttributes, LiveSwitch).

  • Integration, internal/intg/queue/restart_policy_test.go, with a real
    scheduler and real runs:

    • restarts after succeeded and failed runs, never before the wait;
    • one run at a time;
    • always and unless-stopped after a stop;
    • a restart dropped while the DAG is suspended starts again after the resume;
    • an unmet precondition keeps being retried;
    • a DAG without a policy is left alone.

    They also pass with -race, and the two regressions failed before commit 7.

  • Conformance spec080_restart_policy: validation fixtures and the restart
    command.

  • Each commit builds and passes the tests of the packages it touches.

  • golangci-lint is clean for linux, windows and darwin.

  • UI typecheck, eslint and vitest pass.

  • The full go test ./... passes except TestTryLoadForDay_StaleIndex_NewAttempt
    (see below).

Measurements

These were taken on a local build (Linux, 22 cores) with start-all, queues
enabled, and the default zombie detection.

Case Result
Gap between the end of a run and the start of the next, restart_wait_sec: 1 2 to 3 s (29 runs, median 3 s)
Same, restart_wait_sec: 5 8 s (10 runs)
300 service DAGs waiting (restart_wait_sec: 600), scheduler CPU over 30 s 1.73% of one core, RSS 178 MB
300 DAGs scheduled once a year, upstream 7147afb 0.17% of one core, RSS 143 MB
Run process killed with kill -9 next run about 90 s later
Distributed: worker killed with its run next run about 134 s later, one queued run, no pile-up
Scheduler stopped and started again no duplicate run, the running run survives
  • What the gap contains: the wait, the scanner tick (at most 1 s), the queue
    dispatch and the start of the run process. Run timestamps have a one-second
    precision.
  • Idle cost: each waiting service DAG costs a few store reads per second.
  • Dead runs: the two kill cases are bounded by the existing zombie detection
    (scheduler.zombie_detection_interval, scheduler.failure_threshold), not by
    this change. They were measured on the first revision of this branch; the code
    path is the same.

Notes for reviewers

  • History: a restart is a run of its own, so a service DAG that keeps
    failing fills its history at one run per wait. There is no backoff in this
    version (fixed wait, see feat: DAG-level restart_policy to keep a DAG always running #3149). With a one-second wait, a run that fails at
    once restarts about every 3 s, along with its handlers and notifications.
  • Worker slots: a service run holds a worker slot for as long as it lives.
  • Renaming: renaming the file of a running service starts the renamed DAG at
    once, next to the old run that keeps running.

Pre-existing issues found on the way (not touched here)

  • Spec 075 and the loader disagree. specs/075-repeat-policy.md says that
    without condition or exit_code, repeat: while repeats while the attempt
    succeeded. Loading such a step fails with "repeat mode 'while' requires either
    'condition' or 'exit_code'".
  • TestTryLoadForDay_StaleIndex_NewAttempt (dagrunindex) is flaky. It
    fails in most runs on an unmodified tree here (34 of 40 on 7147afb). The
    index detects a new attempt through the run directory mtime, compared to the
    nanosecond, but Linux only moves directory mtimes once per kernel tick (4 ms
    at HZ=250). An attempt created within the same tick is not seen.
  • Run sockets can collide. The unix socket of a run is named after the DAG
    name only, so two Dagu instances on one host that run DAGs with the same name
    at the same time collide.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added DAG restart policies: always and unless-stopped, with a configurable delay between runs.
    • Service DAGs restart after runs end; unless-stopped respects operator stop requests. Suspended DAGs pause automatic restarts.
    • The DAG list and details display restart settings and identify service DAGs, which can be suspended or resumed.
    • Active DAG filtering includes unsuspended DAGs with restart policies, and run history identifies automatically restarted runs.
    • Restart policies require a delay and cannot be combined with a schedule or DAG-level retry policy.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Restart commands are rejected for DAGs managed by a restart policy, with guidance for resuming unless-stopped DAGs.

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Adds DAG-level restart_policy configuration with always and unless-stopped options. The scheduler starts new runs after the configured wait. API, persistence, CLI, UI, and conformance changes expose and handle restart-policy DAGs.

Changes: DAG Restart Policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy contract and validation
internal/ir/*, internal/spec/*, internal/cmn/schema/dag.schema.json, specs/080-restart-policy.md, conformance/spec080_restart_policy/*
Adds restart-policy parsing and validation. Enabled policies require a positive wait, cannot be set in base configuration, and cannot be combined with schedules or DAG-level retry policies.
Restart attempt state and stop semantics
internal/runtime/manager.go, internal/persis/file/dagrun/*, internal/queue/queue_abort.go
Adds all-history latest-status reads and preserves queued restart attempts as aborted when dequeued. Status updates read uncached state before mutation.
Restart scheduling and run lifecycle
internal/service/scheduler/*, internal/intg/queue/*, internal/intg/distr/*
Adds a scanner that checks restart-policy DAGs and enqueues due runs with the restart trigger. Tests cover timing, active runs, suspension, stop behavior, worker failure, and scheduler failover.
Persisted and API representations
proto/index/v1/index.proto, internal/persis/file/dag/dagindex/*, internal/persis/dag_repository_list.go, internal/service/frontend/api/v1/transformer.go, internal/service/mcp/*, api/v1/*
Stores restart policy and wait duration in DAG index entries and returns them in API responses. API schemas and active-DAG filters include restart-policy DAGs.
CLI restart and trigger behavior
internal/cmd/*, conformance/spec080_restart_policy/validate_test.go, llms.txt, skills/dagu/references/cli.md
The restart command rejects service DAGs based on the current definition or saved DAG snapshot. CLI references describe the restriction and include restart as a trigger type.
Restart policy UI
ui/src/api/v1/schema.ts, ui/src/lib/dagSchedule.ts, ui/src/features/dags/*, ui/src/i18n/staticMessages.ts
Adds restart-policy labels to DAG details and list views. Service DAGs have a live switch and status display, and restart-triggered runs have a Restart label.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Scheduler
  participant RestartScanner
  participant Manager
  participant EnqueueCatchupRun
  Scheduler->>RestartScanner: Start scanner with scheduler context
  loop Immediate scan and every second
    RestartScanner->>Manager: Read latest status across all history
    Manager-->>RestartScanner: Return latest status and end time
    RestartScanner->>EnqueueCatchupRun: Enqueue due run with restart trigger
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Issue #3149 requires restart_policy values no, always, and unless-stopped; a positive restart_wait_sec; no service policy in base configuration; no service policy with a schedule or DAG-level retry_policy; suspension handling; a restart trigger; latest-run timing; and deterministic restart IDs. The PR implements these requirements in internal/spec, RestartScanner, queue handling, persistence, and scheduler integration. internal/service/scheduler/restart_scanner_test.go, queue integration tests, distributed failover tests, conformance tests, and race regression tests cover the reported behavior. API, UI, MCP, schema, and command changes expose the feature. Alerting remains outside issue scope.

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I added five commits on top of this PR to check what happens to a service DAG when something is lost, and to write it down.

Tests (all pass with -race)

  • internal/intg/queue: the process of a running service DAG is killed. The next read of the latest status marks the run as failed, and exactly one restart follows.
  • internal/intg/distr: a service DAG runs on one of two worker processes, and that worker is killed. The run fails when its lease expires (DistributedLeaseExpiredReason), the DAG restarts on the other worker, one restart follows, and two runs of the DAG are never active at the same time.
  • internal/intg/distr: the scheduler is replaced while a run is active. The new scheduler starts no second run, and restarts the DAG once after the run ends.

One production change: scheduler.Dependencies.LeaseStaleAfter, next to WorkerStaleAfter. The queue counts a distributed run lease toward concurrency until it is 90 seconds stale, and the scheduler had no way to change that. With a short threshold on the coordinator only, the restart waited for the full 90 s (plus the next 30 s queue rescan) because the crashed run still occupied the queue slot. Zero keeps the default, so nothing changes outside the tests.

What this means in practice, with default settings: after a worker crash, the run is marked failed once its lease is stale (90 s), and the restart can need up to about 30 s more to be admitted by the queue, so recovery takes around two minutes. A run process that dies on its own host is recovered on the next status read. A scheduler replaced while the old one is still running takes over without a gap. If the old scheduler fails without releasing its lock, the takeover waits for scheduler.lock_stale_threshold (30 s by default).

The last commit adds a "Scheduler Behavior" section to spec 080 with this, marked as an implementation note that the conformance suite does not check.

Not covered: a scheduler that fails without releasing its lock (only the replacement case is tested), Windows (checked with go vet, not run), and shared volumes such as NFS.

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Rebased on the current main (the conflicts were only in the generated api/v1/api.gen.go, regenerated with make api). No other change. The follow-up work is stacked on this PR: #3260, #3261, #3262 and #3263.

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Pushed one commit (Word the restart prompts and states of a service DAG more exactly) for the findings that CodeRabbit raised on the stacked PRs and that concern this PR:

  • The resume prompt of the live switch no longer promises a run after the restart wait. The scheduler starts a run when one is due: at once for a DAG that never ran, and not after an operator's stop.
  • The Restart trigger label goes through the catalog (run line, trigger indicator, status card).
  • An unless-stopped DAG whose latest run was aborted shows Stopped instead of Live in the DAG list.

Not changed: the restart_policy enum of the JSON schema stays lowercase, like the other enums of the schema. The parser also accepts other cases, and the schema is a hint for the editor. The restart: prefix of the badges mirrors the DAG file key, like the cron expressions next to it.

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Wording: spec 080 here says "service DAG" in places, and #3260 renames it to "always-on". #3271 and #3272 add the list of terms of the spec (run, restart, loop, cycle, repeat, retry, attempt). Nothing to change in this PR.

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Thanks a lot for this, @SCcagg5. The crash and failover tests made it much easier to review.

I pushed a few fixes on top so we can merge it:

  • dequeuing a restart run now counts as a stop instead of being queued again
  • always-on DAGs keep their last 100 runs unless retention is set
  • dagu restart checks the current DAG file
  • unless-stopped honors a stop even when the run ends as failed
  • merged main

Let me know if anything looks off.

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yohamta0 force-pushed the feat/dag-restart-policy branch from 7ccf6da to 9f815af Compare November 5, 2026 06:35
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Thanks @SCcagg5, really nice work on this, especially the crash and failover tests.

I rebased it onto main (the restart label now sits in the new ScheduleLine) and pushed a few fixes on top:

  • always-on DAGs ignore the 30-day hist_retention_days from the default base.yaml, so the 100-run default actually applies
  • runs that keep failing within 10s back off, doubling up to 5 min
  • no store reads while a DAG waits out restart_wait_sec
  • disabled queues are logged as an error instead of a one-time warning

The stacked PRs will need a rebase on top of this.

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Pushed two more commits so the restart scanner stops reading every service DAG's state each second. It now wakes on run-end events (with a check every 30s in case one gets lost), and only reads the queue right before a restart. Thanks again for this!

The restart badge of a service DAG showed an English "restart:" prefix
in every locale; it now uses the translated "Restart" message. The
state next to it read "Live", which suggests a run is alive, something
the DAG list does not know. A service DAG that is not suspended now
reads "Enabled", and scheduled DAGs keep "Live".
The base.yaml written on first run sets hist_retention_days: 30, and a
service DAG inherited it, so the 100-run default never applied. A DAG
that restarts every few seconds kept 30 days of runs instead.

A hist_retention_days from the base configuration no longer applies to
a service DAG. Its own hist_retention_days, and a hist_retention_runs
from either place, still do.
A service DAG that crashed on start was restarted every
restart_wait_sec forever: with a wait of 1 second it restarted about
once a second and filled its history and logs.

Each run in a row that does not succeed within 10 seconds of its start
now doubles the wait, up to 5 minutes. A success or a longer run resets
it. The scanner keeps the count in memory, so a scheduler that takes
over starts again from restart_wait_sec.
The scanner read the pause state, the processes, the queue and the
latest run of every service DAG every second, even while the DAG waited
out its restart wait, when nothing could make its next run due sooner.

It now remembers when the next run becomes due and reads nothing until
then. An edited restart_wait_sec applies at once.
The runs of a service DAG go through queues. With queues disabled, the
scanner warned once per DAG and then never started a run, so a DAG that
looked configured did nothing, and the only sign was one log line.

The scanner now returns an error for such a DAG at each scan, logged at
most every 30 seconds, and the schema says that restart_policy needs
queues.
The restart scanner read the DAG's queue and proc group on every scan
before it read the latest run. A queue is read item by item, so a
service DAG on a shared queue paid for every queued item each second,
for as long as its run was active or it stayed stopped.

The latest run already shows a queued or running restart, so the queue
and processes are read only once a restart is due. The scanner also no
longer checks that the restart's ID is free: the enqueue does that,
and each check scans the DAG's run history.
The restart scanner read the latest run of every service DAG each
second, even while the run stayed active for hours or the DAG stayed
stopped. A distributed run leaves no local process, so its DAG paid for
that read for as long as the run lasted.

The scanner now reads the event store once per scan, which costs the
same for any number of DAGs, and checks a DAG only when its run ended,
its wait is over, or 30 seconds have passed. The 30-second check covers
events lost between a status write and its event. Without an event
store, every scan checks every DAG as before.
The restart command read the DAG saved with a run before checking that
the run is running, so a finished run whose saved DAG is unreadable
failed with a read error instead of saying it is not running.

The saved DAG is only needed first to refuse a DAG with a restart
policy whose definition is gone; a read error now surfaces only for a
run that is running.
The loader reads restart_policy case-insensitively and trims spaces, as
spec 080 requires, but the JSON schema only listed the lowercase
values, so an editor flagged "Always" as an error in a DAG that loads.

The schema keeps the lowercase values for completion and also accepts
them in any case.
A run on a distributed worker leaves no process on the scheduler host,
so an older run of a service DAG still going on a worker was invisible
once a newer run had ended: the scanner queued a restart next to it.

Before a restart, the scanner now also looks for a fresh distributed
lease of the DAG, the same signal queue concurrency counts.
A latest run left not started counted as active, so its service DAG
never restarted. The coordinator records a distributed run as not
started until a worker runs it, and a run without an active-run record
and without a worker has no repair path.

Such a run is now taken for ended five minutes after it was created.
A worker or process that still runs it keeps the DAG busy, so a slow
start does not get a second run.
When the latest-attempt pointer was unusable, the store looked only at
the newest run directory. A run whose creation was cut short has no
readable attempt, so the store reported that the DAG had no runs: the
restart scanner took a service DAG with history for one that never
ran, and the UI showed the DAG as not started.

The store now looks past such runs among the newest ten.
The index now stores each DAG's restart policy and wait, but kept
version 5. An index written before the upgrade was reused while no DAG
file changed, so list views and the active filter missed the policy of
DAGs that already set it.

Bump the version so that index is rebuilt.
A crash after the attempt of a restart run was created, but before its
status was written, left a run without a status. The scanner skipped it,
derived the same run ID from the run before it at every scan, and the
enqueue failed with no status data each time: the DAG never restarted.

Remove such a run and create it again. Only restart runs are replaced,
since their ID comes back; only the scheduler holding the lock queues
them, so no other creation of the ID is in progress.
A crash after a restart run was stored as queued, but before its queue
item was written, left a queued run with nothing to dispatch it. The
scanner took it for active and waited for it forever.

Once a queued or not started run passes the five minute timeout, and no
process, worker lease, queue item or pending dispatch will still start
it, the scanner marks it failed with a compare and swap. The DAG then
restarts after it like after any ended run, so its history says what
happened instead of keeping a run queued that never ran.
An attempt's status file is created when the attempt is opened and
stays empty until its first status is written. A crash in between left
an attempt that counted as existing but could not be read. For a
restart run, the scanner derived its ID again from the run before it,
and the enqueue took the run for an existing one and skipped it at
every scan: the DAG never restarted.

Treat an empty status file like a missing one. The run then has no
status, so the restart run is replaced like one whose status file was
never created, and lookups skip the attempt instead of failing on it.
A manual start can put a run next to the run of the scheduler, and the
older run can end last. The scanner only looked at the newest run, so
stopping a manual run left an unless-stopped service down for good once
the other run ended, though nobody stopped that run. The wait, the
backoff and the restart run ID also came from the wrong run.

Once the latest run has ended, look through the recent runs and follow
the one that ended last.
A second run of a service DAG means two copies of the service: a port
conflict, or a queue consumed twice. The scheduler never starts one, and
the restart command is refused for that reason, but a manual start could
still put one next to the active run.

Refuse start, enqueue and retry, with their API requests and MCP
actions, and webhooks, while the latest run is active. With no active
run they work, which is how a stopped service comes back. The queue
dispatch of a held run, workers and parent runs are not affected. A
latest run that cannot be read does not count, so that it cannot keep an
operator from bringing the DAG back.

Overlap can still come from a start that races with a restart and from
runs that predate the policy, so the test of following the run that
ended last now sets up its runs before the policy is added.
A crash in the middle of the first status write leaves part of a line.
The attempt then counted as existing though it held no status, so the
scanner took its restart run for one that already exists and never
replaced it, and with the latest pointer gone it hid the runs before it.
The service stayed down.

A status counts once its line ends with a newline, the same rule the
status parser follows.
The check of an API request or a command and the start of the process
are apart, so a manual start could race with a restart and both could
run.

Check again under the process lock, before the attempt is created, so
that of two starts that race on a host the second sees the first. A
queued run refused this way fails, and the scanner restarts the DAG
after the run that ended last.
A run that waits for a worker has no process and no queue item, and is
not started, so a manual start could run next to it.

Count such a run as active for as long as the scanner leaves it alone.
After that it may be left behind by a crash, and the scheduler that
would fail it may not be running, so it must not keep an operator from
bringing the service back.
The check of a manual run looked at the DAG in hand. A run whose snapshot
predates the restart_policy, or a spec in a request that leaves it out,
could still run next to the active run.

The scheduler follows the current definition, so that decides here too,
and the DAG in hand once the definition is gone.
The API code conflicted with the fields that main added to the schema.
Generate it from the merged schema.
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yohamta0 force-pushed the feat/dag-restart-policy branch from e3e8e56 to bc905d7 Compare November 6, 2026 09:57
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yohamta0 merged commit bee8de0 into dagucloud:main Nov 6, 2026
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"Service DAG" is the name dagucloud#3156 and the docs use, and restart_policy
comes from Docker Compose, where it belongs to a service. "Always-on"
also reads wrong for an unless-stopped DAG that an operator stopped.

The API is not released yet, so rename its endpoint, schemas, filter
and SSE topic now. They say "service DAG" rather than "service", since
/services already names Dagu's own processes.
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