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Cadence Long Running Child Workflows

For long running activities we can use heartbeats to notify whether the activity is running or dead.

We have a workflow that invokes multiple child workflow with some params based on grouping which the parent workflow generates. The child-workflows are long running workflows.
Is there a way to have similar heartbeats sent from child workflows, as these workflows are long running with timeout set as a few hours ? Or rather what is the way to notify the child workflow is running ?

We are using the go-client for implementing the workflows.

Solution

  • Long running activities heartbeat to ensure their timeout in case of a worker failure.

    Workflow worker failure doesn't lead to workflow failures. So heartbeating is not necessary.