---
title: "Beat"
description: "when something runs again; one register and one scheduler"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/beat
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Beat

when something runs again; one register and one scheduler

[figure: Beat is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | rules_engine |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `every` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `anchor` | `time` | no |  |
| `zone` | `text` | no |  |
| `attempts` | `count` | no | how many attempts one tick gets before its run is left failed; absent means one, so a failed tick waits for the next |
| `retry_after` | `duration` | no | the wait between a failed attempt and the next; required when attempts is above one |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/act/beat`](/reference/act/beat) returns it