DescribeExecution
Provides information about a state machine execution, such as the state machine associated with the execution, the execution input and output, and relevant execution metadata. Use this API action to return the Map Run Amazon Resource Name (ARN) if the execution was dispatched by a Map Run.
If you specify a version or alias ARN when you call the StartExecution
API action, DescribeExecution
returns that ARN.
Note
This operation is eventually consistent. The results are best effort and may not reflect very recent updates and changes.
Executions of an EXPRESS
state machinearen't supported by DescribeExecution
unless a Map Run dispatched them.
Request Syntax
{
"executionArn": "string
"
}
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- executionArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the execution to describe.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
Required: Yes
Response Syntax
{
"cause": "string",
"error": "string",
"executionArn": "string",
"input": "string",
"inputDetails": {
"included": boolean
},
"mapRunArn": "string",
"name": "string",
"output": "string",
"outputDetails": {
"included": boolean
},
"startDate": number,
"stateMachineAliasArn": "string",
"stateMachineArn": "string",
"stateMachineVersionArn": "string",
"status": "string",
"stopDate": number,
"traceHeader": "string"
}
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
- cause
-
The cause string if the state machine execution failed.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 32768.
- error
-
The error string if the state machine execution failed.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.
- executionArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the execution.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
- input
-
The string that contains the JSON input data of the execution. Length constraints apply to the payload size, and are expressed as bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 262144.
- inputDetails
-
Provides details about execution input or output.
Type: CloudWatchEventsExecutionDataDetails object
- mapRunArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies a Map Run, which dispatched this execution.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2000.
- name
-
The name of the execution.
A name must not contain:
-
white space
-
brackets
< > { } [ ]
-
wildcard characters
? *
-
special characters
" # % \ ^ | ~ ` $ & , ; : /
-
control characters (
U+0000-001F
,U+007F-009F
)
To enable logging with CloudWatch Logs, the name should only contain 0-9, A-Z, a-z, - and _.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 80.
-
- output
-
The JSON output data of the execution. Length constraints apply to the payload size, and are expressed as bytes in UTF-8 encoding.
Note
This field is set only if the execution succeeds. If the execution fails, this field is null.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 262144.
- outputDetails
-
Provides details about execution input or output.
Type: CloudWatchEventsExecutionDataDetails object
- startDate
-
The date the execution is started.
Type: Timestamp
- stateMachineAliasArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the state machine alias associated with the execution. The alias ARN is a combination of state machine ARN and the alias name separated by a colon (:). For example,
stateMachineARN:PROD
.If you start an execution from a
StartExecution
request with a state machine version ARN, this field will be null.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
- stateMachineArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the executed stated machine.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
- stateMachineVersionArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the state machine version associated with the execution. The version ARN is a combination of state machine ARN and the version number separated by a colon (:). For example,
stateMachineARN:1
.If you start an execution from a
StartExecution
request without specifying a state machine version or alias ARN, Step Functions returns a null value.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.
- status
-
The current status of the execution.
Type: String
Valid Values:
RUNNING | SUCCEEDED | FAILED | TIMED_OUT | ABORTED
- stopDate
-
If the execution ended, the date the execution stopped.
Type: Timestamp
- traceHeader
-
The Amazon X-Ray trace header that was passed to the execution.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.
Pattern:
\p{ASCII}*
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- ExecutionDoesNotExist
-
The specified execution does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidArn
-
The provided Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is not valid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: