Learn About the Payloads in the Activity Stream

The activity stream shows details about how messages move through an integration, including whether failures occurred. The activity stream in the user interface shows only messages of certain sizes and types. However, you can see all payloads at any time by downloading the activity stream.

Types of Payload Messages That Appear in the Activity Stream

The activity stream provides an inline view of some payloads. However, binary payloads, such as a zip file, cannot be viewed in the activity stream. Instead, you can directly download those payloads for viewing.

The Activity Stream title is shown at the top. Below this is the Trace with payload label. To the right are the expand and download icons. Below is the status of the integration flow. Message started processing is expanded to show the message payload. On the right are the download, copy to clipboard, and toggle row lines icons.

Payloads with the following media types (MIME types) can be viewed in the activity stream:

text/javascript
text/typescript
text/strings
text/html
text/x-yaml
text/css
text/x-sql
text/x-mysql
text/x-sh
text/plain
text/xml
application/json
application/xml
application/typescript
application/javascript

For all other media types, download the payloads directly to your system by clicking Download at the top of the activity stream to download the entire activity stream of the instance or inline to download the payload for the selected section of the activity stream.

The Activity Stream title is shown at the top. Below this is the Trace with payload label. To the right are the expand and download icons. Below is the status of the integration flow. The "Message started processing" part of the message is expanded to show a message saying that the payload is in a format that cannot be displayed. You should click the download payload icon.

Payload Messages That Appear in the Activity Stream

The size of the payload determines whether it can be viewed in the activity stream or must be downloaded for viewing.

Attachments are not considered part of the payload and are not visible in the activity stream. Adapters store attachments and delete them after processing completes.

Payload Sizes	Viewable in the Activity Stream
Small: Less than 32 KB	Yes (visible inline)
Large: More than 32 KB	No (can be downloaded from the activity stream)

See Track the Status of Integration Instances and View Error Messages and the Message Payload in the Activity Stream of Failed Instances.