How can I get a Hangfire job's end time?

Question

Given a Hangfire job's ID, how can I get the time at which the job finished running?

I've tried the below, but the JobData class doesn't have a property for job end time.

IStorageConnection connection = JobStorage.Current.GetConnection();
JobData jobData = connection.GetJobData(jobId);

Answer 1

I have had a similar requirement before. Here is a method I wrote to get the SucceededAt property using the name of the running method and the current PerformContext:

public static DateTime? GetCompareDate(PerformContext context, string methodName)
{
    return long.TryParse(context.BackgroundJob.Id, out var currentJobId)
        ? JobStorage.Current
            ?.GetMonitoringApi()
            ?.SucceededJobs(0, (int)currentJobId)
            ?.LastOrDefault(x => x.Value?.Job?.Method?.Name == methodName).Value?.SucceededAt
        : null;
}

You could just as easily get DeletedJobs, EnqueuedJobs, FailedJobs, etc.

You can call it from a job method like this:

public async Task SomeJob(PerformContext context, CancellationToken token)
{
    ⋮
    var compareDate = GetCompareDate(context, nameof(SomeJob));
    ⋮
}

You just have to add the PerformContext when adding the job by passing in null:

RecurringJobManager.AddOrUpdate(
        recurringJobId: "1",
        job: Job.FromExpression(() => SomeJob(null, CancellationToken.None)),
        cronExpression: Cron.Hourly(15),
        options: new RecurringJobOptions
        {
            TimeZone = TimeZoneInfo.Local
        });

Note: It will only work if the succeeded job has not expired yet. Successful jobs expire after one day - if you need to keep them longer (to get the SucceededAt property), here is a reference for that: How to configure the retention time of job?