diff --git a/packages/server/src/automations/listeners.ts b/packages/backend-core/src/queue/listeners.ts
similarity index 52%
rename from packages/server/src/automations/listeners.ts
rename to packages/backend-core/src/queue/listeners.ts
index 9f8667bd29..c5db628ef0 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/automations/listeners.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-core/src/queue/listeners.ts
@@ -1,78 +1,90 @@
-import { Queue, Job, JobId } from "bull"
-import { AutomationEvent } from "../definitions/automations"
-import * as automation from "../threads/automation"
+import { Job, JobId, Queue } from "bull"
+import { JobQueue } from "./constants"
 
-export const addListeners = (queue: Queue) => {
-  logging(queue)
-  handleStalled(queue)
+export type StalledFn = (job: Job) => Promise<void>
+
+export const addListeners = (
+  queue: Queue,
+  jobQueue: JobQueue,
+  removeStalled?: StalledFn
+) => {
+  logging(queue, jobQueue)
+  if (removeStalled) {
+    handleStalled(queue, removeStalled)
+  }
 }
 
-const handleStalled = (queue: Queue) => {
+const handleStalled = (queue: Queue, removeStalled: StalledFn) => {
   queue.on("stalled", async (job: Job) => {
-    await automation.removeStalled(job as AutomationEvent)
+    await removeStalled(job)
   })
 }
 
-const logging = (queue: Queue) => {
+const logging = (queue: Queue, jobQueue: JobQueue) => {
+  let eventType: string
+  switch (jobQueue) {
+    case JobQueue.AUTOMATIONS:
+      eventType = "automation-event"
+      break
+    case JobQueue.APP_BACKUPS:
+      eventType = "app-backup-event"
+      break
+  }
   if (process.env.NODE_DEBUG?.includes("bull")) {
     queue
       .on("error", (error: any) => {
         // An error occurred.
-        console.error(`automation-event=error error=${JSON.stringify(error)}`)
+        console.error(`${eventType}=error error=${JSON.stringify(error)}`)
       })
       .on("waiting", (jobId: JobId) => {
         // A Job is waiting to be processed as soon as a worker is idling.
-        console.log(`automation-event=waiting jobId=${jobId}`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=waiting jobId=${jobId}`)
       })
       .on("active", (job: Job, jobPromise: any) => {
         // A job has started. You can use `jobPromise.cancel()`` to abort it.
-        console.log(`automation-event=active jobId=${job.id}`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=active jobId=${job.id}`)
       })
       .on("stalled", (job: Job) => {
         // A job has been marked as stalled. This is useful for debugging job
         // workers that crash or pause the event loop.
         console.error(
-          `automation-event=stalled jobId=${job.id} job=${JSON.stringify(job)}`
+          `${eventType}=stalled jobId=${job.id} job=${JSON.stringify(job)}`
         )
       })
       .on("progress", (job: Job, progress: any) => {
         // A job's progress was updated!
         console.log(
-          `automation-event=progress jobId=${job.id} progress=${progress}`
+          `${eventType}=progress jobId=${job.id} progress=${progress}`
         )
       })
       .on("completed", (job: Job, result) => {
         // A job successfully completed with a `result`.
-        console.log(
-          `automation-event=completed jobId=${job.id} result=${result}`
-        )
+        console.log(`${eventType}=completed jobId=${job.id} result=${result}`)
       })
       .on("failed", (job, err: any) => {
         // A job failed with reason `err`!
-        console.log(`automation-event=failed jobId=${job.id} error=${err}`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=failed jobId=${job.id} error=${err}`)
       })
       .on("paused", () => {
         // The queue has been paused.
-        console.log(`automation-event=paused`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=paused`)
       })
       .on("resumed", (job: Job) => {
         // The queue has been resumed.
-        console.log(`automation-event=paused jobId=${job.id}`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=paused jobId=${job.id}`)
       })
       .on("cleaned", (jobs: Job[], type: string) => {
         // Old jobs have been cleaned from the queue. `jobs` is an array of cleaned
         // jobs, and `type` is the type of jobs cleaned.
-        console.log(
-          `automation-event=cleaned length=${jobs.length} type=${type}`
-        )
+        console.log(`${eventType}=cleaned length=${jobs.length} type=${type}`)
       })
       .on("drained", () => {
         // Emitted every time the queue has processed all the waiting jobs (even if there can be some delayed jobs not yet processed)
-        console.log(`automation-event=drained`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=drained`)
       })
       .on("removed", (job: Job) => {
         // A job successfully removed.
-        console.log(`automation-event=removed jobId=${job.id}`)
+        console.log(`${eventType}=removed jobId=${job.id}`)
       })
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/backend-core/src/queue/queue.ts b/packages/backend-core/src/queue/queue.ts
index de2c738ca4..8f7ac79e7a 100644
--- a/packages/backend-core/src/queue/queue.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-core/src/queue/queue.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import env from "../environment"
 import { getRedisOptions } from "../redis/utils"
 import { JobQueue } from "./constants"
-import inMemoryQueue from "./inMemoryQueue"
-import BullQueue from "bull"
 import InMemoryQueue from "./inMemoryQueue"
+import BullQueue from "bull"
+import { addListeners, StalledFn } from "./listeners"
 const { opts, redisProtocolUrl } = getRedisOptions()
 
 const CLEANUP_PERIOD_MS = 60 * 1000
@@ -16,14 +16,18 @@ async function cleanup() {
   }
 }
 
-export function createQueue(jobQueue: JobQueue) {
+export function createQueue(
+  jobQueue: JobQueue,
+  removeStalled: StalledFn
+): BullQueue.Queue {
   const queueConfig: any = redisProtocolUrl || { redis: opts }
   let queue: any
   if (env.isTest()) {
     queue = new BullQueue(jobQueue, queueConfig)
   } else {
-    queue = new inMemoryQueue(jobQueue, queueConfig)
+    queue = new InMemoryQueue(jobQueue, queueConfig)
   }
+  addListeners(queue, jobQueue, removeStalled)
   QUEUES.push(queue)
   if (!cleanupInterval) {
     cleanupInterval = setInterval(cleanup, CLEANUP_PERIOD_MS)
diff --git a/packages/server/src/automations/bullboard.js b/packages/server/src/automations/bullboard.js
index 9dfa7546ec..af2243f13d 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/automations/bullboard.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/automations/bullboard.js
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ const { createBullBoard } = require("@bull-board/api")
 const { BullAdapter } = require("@bull-board/api/bullAdapter")
 const { KoaAdapter } = require("@bull-board/koa")
 const { queue } = require("@budibase/backend-core")
-const listeners = require("./listeners")
+const automation = require("../threads/automation")
 
-let automationQueue = queue.createQueue(queue.JobQueue.AUTOMATIONS)
-listeners.addListeners(automationQueue)
+let automationQueue = queue.createQueue(
+  queue.JobQueue.AUTOMATIONS,
+  automation.removeStalled
+)
 
 const PATH_PREFIX = "/bulladmin"