temporalio / temporalio/features

Customize activity failure logging (and more?)

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enhancement
Dominant language
Go
Stars
32
Forks
28
Avg merge
1d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

Description

Describe the solution you'd like

Today SDKs log all activity failures, but some activity failures are intentional (e.g. for the activity-retry-based-polling pattern). So users want a way to not log some of these failures while still logging others. Also, some users want to customize the tags of logs or do other logging approaches. Users can do all of this today, but we also log in a way they can't disable.

Originally this issue suggested a full activity reporting handler, but now it seems wisest to allow users to disable our currently-forced implicit logging of activity failures so they can defer to their own logging code to do whatever they want.

Per-SDK Tickets
  • Go -
  • Java -
  • Core - N/A
  • TypeScript -
  • Python -
  • .NET -
  • PHP -
  • Temporal CLI - N/A

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the implicit activity-failure logging paths in the Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and PHP SDKs, then review the existing discussion before defining a consistent opt-out behavior that preserves user-controlled logging.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, java, php, python, typescript
Domain
observability-sre
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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