Observability and Auditing in Temporal: What's Happening Inside Your Workflows

Introduction & Observability Objectives 0:00 Event History, Search Attributes & Visibility API 5:53 Observability for Agentic Workloads 12:00 Key Observability Metrics in Temporal 15:32 Cost Attribution 31:01 For teams running Temporal in production, understanding what your workflows are actually doing, and proving it, is one of the first operational challenges you'll face. This session is a practical guide to observability and auditing: Temporal's Visibility API and search attributes, using workflow history for root cause analysis, tracking business and operational metrics, and gaining visibility into agentic workloads when your workflows are orchestrating LLMs and autonomous agents. Key takeaways: Understand Temporal's native observability primitives: event history, Visibility API, Search Attributes, and workflow status. Know which SDK-emitted metrics matter most for production health and how to surface them in your existing dashboards. Understand how to attribute costs to namespaces and teams. Get visibility into agentic workloads to see what your AI agents decided, why, and in what order, backed by a durable event history. Leave with the dashboards, alerts, and query patterns you need to run Temporal confidently in production. Can't make the live session? Register anyway and we'll send the recording to your inbox. Polina Jastrzebska Staff Solutions Architect Temporal Polina Jastrzebska is a Staff Solutions Architect at Temporal with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure automation and full-stack development. She has built and scaled distributed systems across a wide range of environments, from fast-moving startups to global organizations including Nike and HashiCorp. Polina brings a practical, engineering-focused perspective to designing resilient, scalable platforms and modern developer workflows. --- Temporal is the simple, scalable, open source way to write and run reliable cloud applications. Learn more Blog: https://temporal.io/blog How Temporal Works: https://temporal.io/how-temporal-works Community Slack: https://temporal.io/slack Developer resources Docs: https://docs.temporal.io Courses: https://learn.temporal.io/courses Support forum: https://community.temporal.io