profile_tasks – adds time information to tasks¶
Synopsis¶
- Ansible callback plugin for timing individual tasks and overall execution time.
- Mashup of 2 excellent original works: https://github.com/jlafon/ansible-profile, https://github.com/junaid18183/ansible_home/blob/master/ansible_plugins/callback_plugins/timestamp.py.old
- Format: <task start timestamp> (<length of previous task><current elapsed playbook execution time>)
- It also lists the top/bottom time consuming tasks in the summary (configurable)
- Before 2.4 only the environment variables were available for configuration.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this callback.
- whitelisting in configuration - see examples section below for details.
Parameters¶
Examples¶
example: >
  To enable, add this to your ansible.cfg file in the defaults block
    [defaults]
    callback_whitelist = profile_tasks
sample output: >
#
#    TASK: [ensure messaging security group exists] ********************************
#    Thursday 11 June 2017  22:50:53 +0100 (0:00:00.721)       0:00:05.322 *********
#    ok: [localhost]
#
#    TASK: [ensure db security group exists] ***************************************
#    Thursday 11 June 2017  22:50:54 +0100 (0:00:00.558)       0:00:05.880 *********
#    changed: [localhost]
#
Status¶
- This callback is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This callback is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors¶
- UNKNOWN
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