How to get the start time of the dataflow activity within my pipeline?

Question

I have pipeline with multiple data flow activities, for the logging purpose i need to log the start and end time of each data flow,

I used something like this, but getting an error the startTime parameter doesnot actis in activity output,

Any alternate suggestions? Thank you in advance!!

@convertTimeZone(activity('my_df_activity').output.startTime, 'UTC', 'Pacific Standard Time')

Answer 1

Based on this old thread, you can use @string(utcnow()) expression for StartTime and EndTime Set variable activities.

To send these time_difference over mail you can refer this link

Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/662759/capture-and-log-start-and-end-timestamp-of-adf-pip.html