Every dispatch station on collegedata.fyi, when it last ran on schedule, and what it found. If a step goes quiet, the lamp turns red — including the monthly search that sat idle from April to August 2026. Locked doors (Tableau, SharePoint IRM, SSO) ship in the next slice; this page is the clocks.
Dispatch board
monthly · scheduled SLA 40d
Finder
OK
12 days
43 probed · 4 found · 1757 budget left
What this doesOnce a month we ask Brave Search to find Common Data Set pages for schools that still have no listing. If this goes quiet, we stop discovering new files.
monthly · scheduled SLA 40d
Stuck PDFs
DOWN
12 days
The job finished in error.
What this doesMany seeds point at a single old PDF. This step re-checks those schools so we can find the office's actual CDS listing instead of one frozen year.
monthly · scheduled SLA 40d
Landing hints
OK
12 days
0 proposals · 0 promoted
What this doesWhen a PDF seed is really a landing page — the office's CDS index — we rewrite it so weekly archive can collect every year they publish.
daily · SLA 36h
Enqueue
OK
7 hours
221 queued · 625 skipped
What this doesEvery night we decide which schools are due for a fresh look and put them on the archive queue. Schools we already checked recently are skipped.
every 30s
Process
OK
4 sec
queue 0 · 0 inserted · 0 events
What this doesAbout every 30 seconds we take one school off the queue, download what we can, and archive it. This is the machine's pulse.
daily · WAF/JS ingest
Headless archive
OK
19 hours
0 inserted · 2 newly listed · 0 failed
What this doesOnce a day a real browser opens the listings that block ordinary downloads, finds new Common Data Set files, and archives them. This is how WAF-gated schools stay current without a person clicking Save.
daily · pending drain
Extract
LATE
19 hours
1 pending · deadline
What this doesAfter a file is archived, we pull the numbers out of it. The daily job only drains a handful, so a backlog here is late — not necessarily a crash.
hourly · SLA 3h
Coverage
OK
12 min
301 current · 400 stale
What this doesHourly we rebuild the public coverage ledger: which schools have a current CDS, an older one, or none we could find.
hourly · SLA 3h
Serving caches
OK
6 min
refresh_public_serving_caches
What this doesHourly we refresh the homepage and API caches so the public site is not reading live tables on every visit.
monthly · scheduled SLA 40d
IPEDS probe
OK
9 days
no new release
What this doesOnce a month we check whether NCES has posted a new IPEDS Access database. A quiet "no new release" is still a healthy tick.
yearly · slate until a heartbeat
Schema
SLATE
no heartbeat
Do not infer vintage from git.
What this doesOnce a year an operator loads the new CDS year schema. Gray until that happens; red only if it has been more than 18 months.
yearly · slate until a heartbeat
Scorecard
SLATE
no heartbeat
Do not infer vintage from git.
What this doesOnce a year an operator loads College Scorecard. Gray until that load is recorded; red if it is more than 18 months old.
Manual sources (not on the strip): Directory enqueue — no heartbeat · Mirror ingest — no heartbeat
Each station writes a public heartbeat when it starts and when it finishes. Lamps are computed at read time from the scheduled clock. A manual GitHub run cannot green a missing cron. If the scheduled heartbeat is older than the SLA, the lamp is red — including when a dispatch succeeded yesterday. Missing data is red, not gray.
This page is not coverage. Coverage asks whether we have a CDS. This board asks whether the machine is running. JSON snapshot: /pipeline-observation.json.