Action

Last published : Aug 14, 2026
The Action of an instrumentation phase can be one of the following:
Instrumentation Phase Actions
Action Description
Send A send of a message. The absolute time is the start time of the send, and there is no duration value.
Receive A receive of a message. The absolute time is the end of the retrieval. There is no duration value.
Retrieve A receive, with a measurement of the duration. The absolute time is the time at which the retrieval started.
Serialize The conversion of an in-memory object to its serialized format, for transfer to another client.
Deserialize The conversion of a serialized object to an in-memory object.
Write The writing of data to a file, typically for DDT (Direct Data Transfer).
Download The downloading of data from another client.
Call A call to a user-implemented method.
Load A native library load.
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