Script telemetry

Understanding which scripts are being executed in a large implementation is complex. Developers need insight into what caused scripts to run, how long they took, and what entities they impacted.

To see an overview of the scripts:

On the menu bar, click Manage .
On the Manage page, click Scripts.

The Scripts page includes quick display boxes to help you understand the script telemetry. The display boxes show the following details:

Most run scripts: listing the top two most run scripts.
Longest running scripts: listing the top two longest-running scripts.

Warning

There is an expected loss in data beyond a certain limit; the default value is 1000 entries. Suppose a script has been run more than 3000 times. In that case, telemetry does not display the correct numbers because of expected data loss due to how many telemetry data entries can be stored in the cache.

Note

For guidance on best practices for scripts, see Script execution types.

Report for a script

To see a detailed report on a selected script:

Click More actions .
Select Report from the menu.
A detailed report is shown for the script:

The detailed report shows:

Start time
Execution time (ms)
Success

Clicking an entry on the detailed report opens a JSON report on the instance when the script ran and details of the script and script type:

{
  "script_content_id": 30777,
  "start_time": "2021-08-25T07:36:35.8316206Z",
  "execution_time": 100,
  "context_data": {
    "ExecutionPhase": "Pre",
    "ExecutionSource": "Trigger",
    "ExecutionEvent": "OnDelete",
    "ExecutionType": "InProcess",
    "TargetId": "37082",
    "TargetType": "Entity",
    "TriggeringUserId": "6",
    "DirtyProperties": [],
    "DirtyRelations": []
  },
  "success": true,
  "execution_result": "",
  "script_name": "CMP - M.Content - delete",
  "script_id": 11524,
  "script_type": "ActionScript"
}

Reporting

The Reporting tab shows a summary report for all scripts. The summary has the following columns for each script:

Script Name
Script Type
Total times executed
Total time spent executing script
Average execution time
Slowest time
Fastest time

A colored indicator shows the execution time of each of the scripts listed on the page:

Red: script execution time longer than 3000ms.
Yellow: script execution time between 500ms and 3000ms.
Green: script execution time below 500ms.

Clicking on a script displays a JSON form, which contains the telemetry details of the script showing:

total_execution_count
average_execution_time
total_execution_time
fastest_execution_time
slowest_execution_time
total_error_count
threshold
script_name
script_id
script_type

Actions

On the Reporting tab, Actions offers the option to:

Save search: saves the current text search, so it can be reused from the Manage saved search option.
Manage saved search: displays the previously saved search.
Download: the download option is disabled because the report can be downloaded from the Scripts details page.

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