Confluence Content Indexing frequency is handled using a cron job set in schedulingSubsystemContext.xml
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Confluence uses Quartz for scheduling periodic jobs. To change the time of your content indexing, you will need to edit the Quartz configuration.
To change the time of your content indexing
- Open the Quartz configuration file
schedulingSubsystemContext.xml
located underconfluence/WEB-INF/lib/confluence-x.x.x.jar
. Where x.x.x is your Confluence version number.
For Confluence earlier than 2.6, the index cron job is located in
<install dir>\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\schedulingSubsystemContext.xml
. - Find the following section of the file:
<bean id="indexQueueFlushTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerBean"> <property name="jobDetail"> <ref bean="indexQueueFlushJob"/> </property> <property name="cronExpression"> <value>0 0/5 * * * ?</value> </property> </bean>
- The string
'0 0/5 * * * ?'
sets up a Cron Trigger for the job to run every 5 minutes.
- Place the modified file as
<install dir>\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\schedulingSubsystemContext.xml
. It will take precedence over the jarred version.
- You can set a new time by editing this string. Note that the date and time format in this configuration file is in this order:
Second minute hour day
- Restart Confluence.

'0 20 22 * * ?'
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For complete details on the formatting of the cron string, please see http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz/api/org/quartz/CronTrigger.html.