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View a timeline of a CloudFormation stack deployment

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View a timeline of a CloudFormation stack deployment - AWS CloudFormation

The stack deployment timeline graph provides a visual representation of a stack deployment timeline. This view shows the deployment statuses for the stack and each of its resources, and the times that each status changed. Stack deployment statuses are represented by a corresponding color.

Understanding the stack deployment timeline graph

The following image shows the timeline graph for a stack deployment that failed due to an Amazon EC2 instance resource that failed to launch.

A stack deployment timeline graph for a failed stack deployment.

The names of the stack resources are found on the left side of the graph, and the date and time relative to the deployment times are found at the top of the graph.

Each resource starts with the In progress status. The status bar changes to Complete for each successful deployment. The status bar changes to Failed when a resource fails to deploy. When a resource fails to deploy and the stack deployment also fails, the resource responsible for the stack deployment failure receives the Likely root failure status.

After the stack deployment operation failed, the successfully deployed resource begin rolling back and change to the Rollback in progress status. The statuses change to Rollback complete after the resource finish rolling back.

Choosing each resource provides more granular detail on the deployment timeline:

A stack deployment timeline graph popover showing deployment details for the chosen failed resource.

Choosing a resource shows the Type, deployment Start time, deployment End time, and Total duration of the deployment. You will also find the Start time, End time, and Duration of each deployment status in the drop-down menus below. If the resource failed to deploy, a Failure reason will be provided.

For more information on stack statuses, see Stack status codes.

Viewing the stack deployment timeline graph (console)

To view a stack deployment timeline graph:

  1. Open the AWS CloudFormation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.

  2. On the navigation bar at the top of the screen, choose the AWS Region you created the stack in.

  3. On the Stacks page of the CloudFormation console, choose the stack name. CloudFormation displays the stack details for the selected stack.

  4. Choose the Events tab to view the stack events CloudFormation has generated for your stack.

  5. Choose the Timeline graph button to view the timeline graph for your stack.

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