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Temporal Cloud Actions and Usage

Usage​

Actions usage is tracked across an account in the usage dashboard and is visible to Account Owners, Finance Admin and Global Admin. For individual Namespaces, usage can be seen in the Namespace summary for a specific Namespace.

Temporal Cloud Usage dashboard

Actions in Workflows​

When viewing a Workflow history, events that represent a Billable Action are annotated with the number consumed by the event in the Billable Actions Column. These Actions are summarized at the top of the workflow.

Temporal Cloud Usage dashboard showing aggregated Billable Actions

Temporal Cloud Usage dashboard showing individual Billable Actions associated with events

This Billable Action estimate is useful for projecting the cost of Workflows. For example, if you ran a test Workflow that generated 20 Billable Actions and projected that it would be run 100 times a day for a month, you could anticipate that Workflow to generate 20 Actions x 100 runs/day x 30 days = 60,000 Billable Actions per month. You can also use the Billable Action estimate to help optimize Workflows by better understanding your cost drivers.

Excluded Billable Actions

The Billable Action estimate is an experimental feature and only measures Billable Actions that exist within Workflow event histories. Some billable concepts are not included in these calculations such as:

  • Query
  • Activity Heartbeats
  • Rejected Update Workflow Executions
  • Export
  • Schedule
  • Replicated Actions that occur in a Namespace replication

Additionally, Workflows with the TemporalNamespaceDivision Search Attribute set may not have accurate Billable Action Estimates. The estimated Billable Actions should only be treated as an estimate. If billable events exist outside of event history, the Actions count could be higher.

Reach out to our team for more information or to help size your number of Actions.