ansible.posix.profile_tasks – adds time information to tasks

Note

This plugin is part of the ansible.posix collection (version 1.2.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.posix.profile_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 controller node that executes this callback.

• whitelisting in configuration - see examples section below for details.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
output_limit string	Default: 20	ini entries: [callback_profile_tasks] task_output_limit = 20 env:PROFILE_TASKS_TASK_OUTPUT_LIMIT	Number of tasks to display in the summary
sort_order string	Choices: descending ← ascending none	ini entries: [callback_profile_tasks] sort_order = descending env:PROFILE_TASKS_SORT_ORDER	Adjust the sorting output of summary tasks

Examples

example: >
  To enable, add this to your ansible.cfg file in the defaults block
    [defaults]
    callback_whitelist = ansible.posix.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]
#