Using One hangfire DB for multiple applications

[rikbosch]

Well… it actually not supported ‘by default’.

You have to make sure that the job is executed on the application where it was scheduled, otherwise HangFire can not execute the job, since it can not find the Job’s method,

I’ve come up with a solution for sharing one hangfire database accross multiple applications.
Please see:

One queue for the whole farm, and one queue by server

I’ve had the same ‘problem’ and came up with the following solution: when configuring the server add a seperate queue per scheduler instance: var serverOptions = new BackgroundJobServerOptions() { ServerName = GetSchedulerInstanceServerName(), Queues = new[] { InstanceName, "Default" } //<==instance name is some static property }; where InstanceName is something unique to the server (e.g. the hostname +…