---
title: "Following a Background Run"
description: "Watch a run's progress under Background Jobs and on the Task page, and get notified when it finishes."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/following-a-background-run"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Working with Master Data > Processing Records into SAP"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Following a Background Run

> Watch a run's progress under Background Jobs and on the Task page, and get notified when it finishes.

> **Draft brief for authors.** Replace with the final text; keep the task-page structure.

**Page type:** Task · **Audience:** Viewer and up

**Contains:** the Background Jobs row (status, processed, errors, total, identity in SAP); the Task page's progress bar split by result; the running-jobs notice in the Monitor; notifications when your administrator connected the Alert Notification service; what "stale" means and what the application does about it.

**Related information:** `app-background-jobs`, `pause-resume-stop`, `job-notifications`.