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How to measure and display time taken for tasks when running ansible-playbook?

I have one playbook and in this playbook, there are so many tasks. I need to know which task has taken how much time?

Is there any solution?

Solution

  • Add callbacks_enabled = profile_tasks in the [defaults] section in your ansible.cfg.

    (Or callback_whitelist for Ansible < 2.11.)

    Here is my ansible.cfg

    [defaults]
inventory = hosts
callbacks_enabled = profile_tasks
deprecation_warnings = False

    Here is my playbook

    - hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: true
  tasks:
    - name: Sleep for 10 Sec
      command: sleep 10

    - name: Sleep for 5 Sec
      command: sleep 5

    - name: Sleep for 2 Sec
      command: sleep 2

    Here is my play output.

    PLAY [localhost] ***************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************
Thursday 28 May 2020  09:36:04 +0000 (0:00:00.038)       0:00:00.038 **********
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Sleep for 10 Sec] ********************************
Thursday 28 May 2020  09:36:07 +0000 (0:00:03.695)       0:00:03.733 **********
changed: [localhost]

TASK [Sleep for 5 Sec] *********************************
Thursday 28 May 2020  09:36:18 +0000 (0:00:11.166)       0:00:14.899 **********
changed: [localhost]

TASK [Sleep for 2 Sec] *********************************
Thursday 28 May 2020  09:36:24 +0000 (0:00:05.965)       0:00:20.865 **********
changed: [localhost]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************
localhost                  : ok=4    changed=3    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Thursday 28 May 2020  09:36:27 +0000 (0:00:02.878)       0:00:23.744 **********
===============================================================================
Sleep for 10 Sec------------------------------------------------ 11.17s
Sleep for 5 Sec------------------------------------------------- 5.97s
Gathering Facts------------------------------------------------- 3.70s
Sleep for 2 Sec ------------------------------------------------- 2.88s

    Here at last it shows how much time each task took to complete the play.

    The explanation about the parameter callbacks_enabled = profile_tasks is found in the official ansible doc...

    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback.html#enabling-callback-plugins

    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback.html#plugin-list

    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback/profile_tasks.html