Temporal

Activity Commands

Manually complete or fail activity executions. Useful for testing, debugging, or handling external activity completions.

4 commands

Pro Tips

Use 'activity complete' with --result to manually finish stuck activities during testing.

Provide --reason and --detail when failing activities to help with debugging.

Manually completing activities bypasses normal execution flow. Only use for testing or recovery.

$ temporal activity complete --workflow-id my-wf --activity-id my-activity --result '{"status":"done"}'

Manually mark activity as successfully completed.

$ temporal activity complete --workflow-id my-wf --run-id abc123 --activity-id my-activity --result '{}'

Complete activity for specific workflow run.

$ temporal activity fail --workflow-id my-wf --activity-id my-activity

Manually mark activity as failed.

$ temporal activity fail --workflow-id my-wf --activity-id my-activity --reason 'Timeout' --detail '{"error":"connection lost"}'

Fail activity with detailed error information.