Monitor Data Actions

After a data action is triggered, either in a SAP Analytics Cloud story or analytic application, from a Calendar task, or as part of a multi action, you can monitor and manage it on the Data Action Monitor page.

To access the Data Action Monitor page, you can either click the link in the message that appears when you start to run a data action in background, or select (Data Actions) from the side navigation and choose the Data Action Monitor tab.

The data action monitor provides an overview of your data action jobs based on your role. As an admin, you can view all data action jobs. Otherwise, you can view data action jobs that you triggered, data actions whose target versions you own, and data actions triggered from data action tasks shared with you in the calendar.

By default, the data action monitor tracks jobs up to 30 days old.

Status Options in the Data Action Monitor
Status Description
(Successful) Data action successfully completed.
Running Data action is running.
(Failed) Data action failed.
(Pending) Data action is pending and waiting to execute. Pending time includes the time required to validate the data action.

  • If the same version or user is already running a data action, the new data action will remain as pending until the previous action is completed.

  • If the required system resources (CPU or access to memory) are not available, the new data action will remain as pending until resources are available.

  • If there are too many other jobs running outside of data actions, the new data action will remain as pending until these jobs have finished.
Search, Sort or Filter Data Actions

You can search for data actions in the list view, sort the columns, or filter the list view by data action job status, triggering date, data action name, triggered from, triggered by, model and version.

To view updated information about the data action jobs, choose the (Refresh) icon. To cancel all filters, choose the (Reset filter) icon.

View More Data Action Execution Details

To view details about the time it took to complete a data action, select Show/Hide columns and select the Pending Time and Execution Time columns.

  • Pending Time: Pending time is the amount of time the data action remained in the queue before starting. This includes the time needed to validate the data action, including the parameters and models used in the data action.

  • Execution Time: Execution time is the amount of time it took to run the data action.

  • Total Duration: Total duration is the overall time to took to complete the data action, including the Pending Time and Execution Time.

You can also check details about execution status and parameters by selecting a data action process and then selecting Details.

The parameters displayed in the Details panel are not necessarily default values, but rather parameter values you choose when running the data action.

Quick Link to the Place You Trigger a Data Action

To quickly access the place where you trigger a data action, click the corresponding data action name, or from the Triggered from column, select the hyperlink of corresponding story, analytic application or calendar.

In the case when there’s no links available, for example, when a story was deleted or a data action task in calendar was executed without data action assignment, Unavailable is displayed.