# Your first tracking run

Source: https://support.seoai.de/docs/your-first-tracking-run/

> What happens when you press Track Now and how to read the queue.

Pressing Track Now on a topic sends every active prompt in that topic to every selected AI platform. Each prompt-platform pair becomes one execution that is queued and processed in the background. You can leave the page; runs continue on the server.

## Watching the queue

The Queue page shows what is happening right now:

- Pending executions waiting to be sent
- Processing executions currently receiving an answer
- Completed executions in the last hour
- Failed executions in the last hour, each with the reason

Finished executions unlock the result viewer, the dashboard and all reports automatically. The queue list refreshes itself every 15 seconds.

> **Note:** Scheduled topics run automatically: daily, weekly or monthly, depending on the topic frequency. Manual runs have a cooldown per plan so that a busy queue stays fair for everyone: 24 hours on Free, 15 minutes on Starter, 5 minutes on Pro and Agency.

## Why a run can take a few minutes

Every execution is a real request to an AI platform. The queue processes jobs with a priority that depends on the plan, and limits how many executions an organization can have in flight at once. A first run with twenty prompts on three platforms means sixty executions, and it is normal for that to take several minutes.

## Special cases worth knowing

1. Google AI Overviews are only counted when Google actually shows an AI Overview for the prompt. If there is none, SEOAI re-checks that prompt about once a week instead of every run.
2. Gemini executions always count as two quota units because they run with live Google grounding.
3. If a platform fails repeatedly, the executions are marked failed with the reason, and you can enable scan-failure email alerts in the notification settings.

## Where to go next

- Read the results in Reading your first results
- Understand the cost side in Executions and quota

**[Reading your first results](https://support.seoai.de/docs/reading-your-first-results)**

**[Executions and quota](https://support.seoai.de/docs/executions-and-quota)**