View the details of the jobs for technical assets on the Monitor page in Metadata Command Center.
Click the job name on Monitor page to go to the Overview page for more details about the job or navigate to the Logs page to view detailed logs for each task in the job.
Overview
The Overview page lets you monitor the job completion status, the execution duration of the job, the status of the individual tasks associated with the job, and more. The jobs for technical assets include the catalog source sync job, catalog source delete job, catalog source purge job, the lookup table import job and other details. The following image shows an example of a catalog source job Overview page and its panels:
1. Job Details
Expand or collapse the Job Details section to view the primary details about your job. This panel displays the following data:
Job Detail
Description
Job ID
The unique ID of the job.
Job Type
The type of job for technical assets.
User Name
The name of the user that triggered the job.
2. Tasks
View or download tasks associated with the job. The tasks are displayed in a hierarchical manner, with the parent tasks containing subtasks. The parent tasks are usually capability-level tasks, such as Metadata Extraction, Data Profiling, Data Classification, and Glossary Association.
You can hover the mouse over any parent task and click Download Task Log to download logs, View Task Log to view logs, or Retry Task to retry a task that has completed with errors. You cannot download or view logs for subtasks. When you search for a task in the Tasks panel, the search result always displays the parent task along with the subtask that is searched. The Tasks panel displays the following details of the parent tasks and their subtasks:
Task Detail
Description
Name
The name of the parent task or the subtask.
Submitted Time
The time at which the task was submitted.
Start Time
The time at which the task started.
End Time
The time at which the task ended.
Execution Duration
The amount of time that the task takes to execute.
Status
The status of the task. It could be Completed, Completed with Errors, Running or Failed.
3. Task Details
Select a parent task in the Tasks panel to view the following information about the selected task in the Task Details panel:
- Properties. Depending on the type of the selected task, the Properties tab displays information such as the runtime environment and the secure agent name on which the task has executed.
- Results. Depending on the type of the selected task, the Results tab displays the statistics of the assets collected or generated as a result of the executed task. For example, a metadata extraction task displays the number of columns, tables, views, database, and other assets that the catalog source extracts.
You can download hierarchical logs and debug logs for metadata extraction tasks associated with catalog source jobs. Click Debug Logs to download the ZIP file. The contents of the ZIP file vary based on the type of the catalog source.
The reports folder in the ZIP file contains hierarchical logs with the following information:
▪ Summary. Displays a summary of the log levels with the count of log messages. The log levels are categorized as Information, Warning, Error, Debug, or Fatal.
▪ Hierarchy. Displays the extracted metadata in a hierarchical structure. For example, database is followed by schema, which in turn nests views.
▪ Logs. Displays the detailed log messages of the metadata extraction task.
You can also download hierarchical logs directly as an Excel file on the Results tab.
You can click the values of assets generated in the Results tab to open the Logs page to view logs for the following parent tasks:
▪ Data Profiling
▪ Data Classification
▪ Glossary Association
▪ Import Predefined Content
4. Menu
The menu on the top of the Overview page displays the following information about the job:
Job Detail
Description
Status
The status of the job. It could be Completed, Completed with Errors, Running or Failed.
If the job fails or completes with errors, click the View Errors link that appears next to the status to go to the Logs page to view at a glance all the tasks that failed or caused errors.
Completed Tasks
The progress bar that shows the completion status of the tasks in the job.
Submitted Time
The time at which the job was submitted.
Start Time
The time at which the job started.
End Time
The time at which the job ended.
Execution Duration
The total amount of time that the job takes to execute, including the execution of the tasks associated with the job.
You can click the Download Job Log icon to download logs for the entire job. You can download logs for jobs regardless of the status of the job.
Logs
The Logs page for a job displays detailed log for each task that was executed in the job. The following image shows an example Logs page of a catalog source sync job:
You can perform the following actions on the Logs page:
•Click the Filter icon on this page and click Add Filter to filter task logs by the task name or level. The level represents the level of the log and is categorized as Information, Warning, Error, Debug, or Fatal.
•View all the errors at a glance for a job that fails or completes with errors. To do this, filter the logs by level and select the level as Error and Fatal.
•Click the Download Job Log icon on the top of the page to download the log for the entire job to your local computer.
