Quartz.Plugins

Quartz.Plugins provides a set of ready-made plugins for common scheduling needs.

Installation

shell

dotnet add package Quartz.Plugins

Included plugins

LoggingJobHistoryPlugin / LoggingTriggerHistoryPlugin — log a history of job executions and trigger firings.
StructuredLoggingJobHistoryPlugin / StructuredLoggingTriggerHistoryPlugin — structured-logging equivalents using named message-template parameters (Serilog, NLog, …); recommended when using structured logging sinks.
XMLSchedulingDataProcessorPlugin / JsonSchedulingDataProcessorPlugin — load jobs and triggers from XML or JSON files, optionally re-scanning for changes.
ShutdownHookPlugin — shuts the scheduler down when the process terminates.
JobInterruptMonitorPlugin — interrupts jobs that run longer than a configured maximum (Quartz 3.3+).

Usage

Plugins are enabled via DI extensions or configuration keys (quartz.plugin.{name}.{property}):

csharp

services.AddQuartz(q =>
{
    q.UseStructuredJobLogging();
    q.UseStructuredTriggerLogging();
});

Authoring configuration extensions

When you write your own ISchedulerPlugin, you can offer the same strongly typed q.UseMyPlugin() experience as the built-in plugins. Write an extension method on IPropertyConfigurationRoot and call the UsePlugin<TPlugin>(name) helper (shipped in the core Quartz package): it sets the quartz.plugin.{name}.type property and, when configuration is backed by Microsoft DI (AddQuartz), registers the plugin into the container so it is constructed with constructor injection. Use TryRegisterSingleton<TService, TImplementation>() to register any companion services the plugin needs injected (it returns false when there is no container, e.g. plain SchedulerBuilder usage).

csharp

public static T UseMyPlugin<T>(this T configurer, Action<MyPluginOptions>? configure = null)
    where T : IPropertyConfigurationRoot
{
    configurer.UsePlugin<MyPlugin>("myPlugin");
    configurer.TryRegisterSingleton<IMyPluginDependency, MyPluginDependency>();
    configure?.Invoke(new MyPluginOptions(configurer));
    return configurer;
}

Derive strongly typed options from PropertiesSetter with the plugin's property prefix; each setter maps to a quartz.plugin.{name}.{property} key applied to the plugin's public setters. The same extension method then works with both AddQuartz (constructor injection) and plain SchedulerBuilder (reflection, requires a public parameterless constructor).

Documentation

📖 Full documentation and per-plugin configuration: https://www.quartz-scheduler.net/documentation/quartz-3.x/packages/quartz-plugins.html