Cron: Every 5 minutes
Runs the job every five minutes.
*/5 * * * *At minute 0, 5, 10, … 55 of every hour.
Field breakdown
| Minute | Hour | Day of month | Month | Day of week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| */5 | * | * | * | * |
The five fields are, in order: minute (0–59), hour (0–23), day of month (1–31), month (1–12), and day of week (0–6, Sunday = 0).
Common use case
Polling an external API, syncing data, or refreshing a cache without hammering the source.
Watch out for
*/5 fires on clock minutes (:00, :05, :10…), not five minutes after the last run finished. If a run can exceed 5 minutes, guard against overlap.
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