I’m trying to understand which metric I can look at to understand the “backlog size” of a given task queue. I found Get the count of currently active workflows and activities - #3 by Michael_Mole , though this post was discussing how to retrieve this count programmatically, which I’m not interested i…

Schedule to start is a client-side metric. You have to enable it on the client. See this Go sample that sets up Prometheus metrics scope in the worker. Let us know if that helps.

Glad to hear! We are also adding similar sdk metrics sample for java sdk, see pr here .

Temporal metric for task queue size/backlog, or schedule to start latency for task queue

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dpincas December 7, 2021, 7:50pm 3

Thank you, this was successful. We are using the Java SDK so we followed the discussion in this thread: How to enable Metrics Support using JAVA SDK

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