--- title: Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening... description: A walkthrough of observability and auditing capabilities in Temporal, covering event history as an immutable audit trail, the visibility API with default and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of observability and auditing capabilities in Temporal, covering event history as an immutable audit trail, the visibility API with default and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9jY3Tl5dI.png og:image:alt: Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 37 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of observability and auditing capabilities in Temporal, covering event history as an immutable audit trail, the visibility API with default and custom search attributes, SDK worker metrics vs. cloud metrics, and cost attribution tools. Key metrics highlighted include schedule-to-start latency, sync match rate, worker task slots available, sticky cache evictions, and the new billable action count metric. The session also covers the new OpenMetrics endpoint replacing the legacy PromQL endpoint, native integrations with Datadog/Grafana/New Relic, the billing API for cost attribution by namespace and team, and a preview of upcoming agentic observability features for AI workflows running on Temporal. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Improved cost transparency with usage-based billing](https://daily.dev/posts/improved-cost-transparency-with-usage-based-billing-uwkc8hggl) · Temporal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Observability 2.0: Why DevOps Teams Are Moving From Monitoring to Intelligent System Understanding](https://daily.dev/posts/observability-2-0-why-devops-teams-are-moving-from-monitoring-to-intelligent-system-understanding-uveczef2f) · DevOps.com · 9 upvotes · 1 comments - [From Prototype to Production — Observability and Auditability \(Part 6\)](https://daily.dev/posts/from-prototype-to-production-observability-and-auditability-part-6--2zmkplcj0) · ITNEXT · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Observability in Headless & Composable Architectures](https://daily.dev/posts/observability-in-headless-composable-architectures-umdssomih) · Netguru · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#workflow-orchestration](https://daily.dev/tags/workflow-orchestration) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di"},"datePublished":"2026-07-21T23:52:15.940Z","dateModified":"2026-07-22T01:39:27.791Z","description":"A walkthrough of observability and auditing capabilities in Temporal, covering event history as an immutable audit trail, the visibility API with default and...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wRc_A-2H4eA/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wRc_A-2H4eA/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Temporal","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Temporal","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/65290ca7e3ab46a7b1df76f2757800c2","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/temporal"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/observability-and-auditing-in-temporal-what-s-happening-inside-your-workflows-9jy3tl5di","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"observability,distributed-systems,workflow-orchestration","timeRequired":"PT37M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows","description":"A walkthrough of observability and auditing capabilities in Temporal, covering event history as an immutable audit trail, the visibility API with default and...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wRc_A-2H4eA/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-21T23:52:15.940Z","duration":"PT37M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/9jY3Tl5dI","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/wRc_A-2H4eA"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Temporal","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/temporal"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows"}]} ```