The cron expression for every 5 minutes

To run a job every 5 minutes, use */5 * * * *. Read aloud it means: At every 5th minute.

Field by field: minute */5 — every 5th minute; hour * — every hour; day of month * — every day-of-month; month * — every month; day of week * — every day-of-week.

Drop the expression into a crontab, a CI schedule, or anything else that speaks standard five-field cron syntax. The times above are in your local timezone — most cron daemons run in the server's timezone, so mind the difference when it matters.