# Productionizing Workers in Temporal

DevFeed: [Productionizing Workers in Temporal](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/productionizing-workers-in-temporal-36114.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/workers-in-production>)

Author: Shawn Wang

Published: 2022-01-21T07:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [SDK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdk.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [self-hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosting.md>), [temporal-concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-concepts.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to productionize Temporal Workers in self-hosted Temporal Server or Temporal Cloud. It covers operational metrics, monitoring and alerting, incident response, scaling, upgrading and versioning, and testing failure, with examples of worker health metrics and integrations including Prometheus, Datadog, and Grafana.

## Source excerpt

Whether you are self hosting Temporal Server or using Temporal Cloud, a key part of the operational model of Temporal is running your own Workers.