1) Install  https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-tool_testtasks git clone https: //github.com/catalyst/moodle-tool_testtasks.git admin/tool/testtasks  2) Run cron and make sure it's complete and empty php admin/cli/cron.php 3) Check the status report and confirm it's green http://moodle.local/report/status/index.php 4) Queue up some purposefully randomly failing test tasks: php admin/tool/testtasks/cli/queue_adhoc_tasks.php -s= 10 -n= 200 5) Run the adhoc task runner and confirm you see some exceptions php admin/cli/adhoc_task.php -e 6) View the status report /report/status/index.php and confirm that these fresh failures are shown as an Info: Info Tasks max fail delay 170 task(s) failing 7) Confirm the status report now shows the number and details of the faildelays http://moodle.local/report/status/index.php?detail=tool_task_maxfaildelay Fail delay: 2 mins - Timed adhoc task (tool_testtasks\task\timed_adhoc_task) ID = 57954 Fail delay: 1 min - Timed adhoc task (tool_testtasks\task\timed_adhoc_task) ID = 59077 Fail delay: 1 min - Timed adhoc task (tool_testtasks\task\timed_adhoc_task) ID = 59079 Fail delay: 1 min - Timed adhoc task (tool_testtasks\task\timed_adhoc_task) ID = 59080 Fail delay: 1 min - Timed adhoc task (tool_testtasks\task\timed_adhoc_task) ID = 59081 8) Just into sql and update the faildelay so that they are over the 5 minute warning threshold: update mdl_task_adhoc set faildelay = 60 * 6 ; 9) Confirm that the report now shows these as a warning 10) Update the faildelay so that it is over the 4 hour error threshold: update mdl_task_adhoc set faildelay = 5 * 60 * 60 ; 11) Confirm it is shown as an error.