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Visibility

This page discusses Visibility.

What is Visibility?​

Support, stability, and dependency info
  • For Temporal Server v1.19 and earlier, all supported databases for Visibility provide standard Visibility features, and an Elasticsearch database is required for advanced Visibility features.
  • For Temporal Server v1.20 and later, advanced Visibility features are enabled on all supported SQL databases, in addition to Elasticsearch.
  • In Temporal Server v1.21 and later, standard Visibility is no longer in development, and we recommend migrating to a database that supports Advanced Visibility features. The Visibility configuration for the Temporal Service has been updated and Dual Visibility is enabled. For details, see Visibility store setup.

The term Visibility, within the Temporal Platform, refers to the subsystems and APIs that enable an operator to view, filter, and search for Workflow Executions that currently exist within a Temporal Service.

The Visibility store in your Temporal Service stores persisted Workflow Execution Event History data and is set up as a part of your Persistence store to enable listing and filtering details about Workflow Executions that exist on your Temporal Service.

With Temporal Server v1.21, you can set up Dual Visibility to migrate your Visibility store from one database to another.

Support for separate standard and advanced Visibility setups will be deprecated from Temporal Server v1.21 onwards. Check Supported databases for updates.