Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
Overview
Amazon SWF helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps.
Setup
Installation
If you haven't already, first set up the AWS CloudWatch integration. No additional steps are needed for installation.
Configuration
On the AWS CloudWatch integration page, ensure that the SWF service is selected for metric collection.
Metrics
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
|
DecisionTaskScheduleToStartTime (milliseconds) |
The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time that the decision task was scheduled and the time it was picked up by a worker and started. |
|
DecisionTaskStartToCloseTime (milliseconds) |
The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time that the decision task was started and the time it was closed. |
|
DecisionTasksCompleted (count) |
The count of decision tasks that have been completed. |
|
StartedDecisionTasksTimedOutOnClose (count) |
The count of decision tasks that started but timed out on closing. |
|
WorkflowStartToCloseTime (milliseconds) |
The time, in milliseconds, between the time the workflow started and the time it closed. |
|
WorkflowsCanceled (count) |
The count of workflows that were canceled. |
|
WorkflowsCompleted (count) |
The count of workflows that completed. |
|
WorkflowsContinuedAsNew (count) |
The count of workflows that continued as new. |
|
WorkflowsFailed (count) |
The count of workflows that failed. |
|
WorkflowsTerminated (count) |
The count of workflows that were terminated. |
|
WorkflowsTimedOut (count) |
The count of workflows that timed out, for any reason. |
|
ActivityTaskScheduleToCloseTime (milliseconds) |
The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time when the activity was scheduled to when it closed. |
|
ActivityTaskScheduleToStartTime (milliseconds) |
The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time when the activity task was scheduled and when it started. |
|
ActivityTaskStartToCloseTime (milliseconds) |
The time interval, in milliseconds, between the time when the activity task started and when it was closed. |
|
ActivityTasksCanceled (count) |
The count of activity tasks that were canceled. |
|
ActivityTasksCompleted (count) |
The count of activity tasks that completed. |
|
ActivityTasksFailed (count) |
The count of activity tasks that failed. |
|
ScheduledActivityTasksTimedOutOnClose (count) |
The count of activity tasks that were scheduled but timed out on close. |
|
ScheduledActivityTasksTimedOutOnStart (count) |
The count of activity tasks that were scheduled but timed out on start. |
|
StartedActivityTasksTimedOutOnClose (count) |
The count of activity tasks that were started but timed out on close. |
|
StartedActivityTasksTimedOutOnHeartbeat (count) |
The count of activity tasks that were started but timed out due to a heartbeat timeout. |
Available Tags
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| activitytypename | Name of the activity type |
| awsaccount | AWS account associated with the metrics |
| domain | The Amazon SWF domain that the activity is running in |
| region | Name of the region |
| workflowtypename | Name of the workflow type |
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