# Monitoring execution times of a specific step in a build

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/monitoring-execution-times-of-a-specific-step-in-a-build/34104>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks, and Hacks\
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/monitoring-execution-times-of-a-specific-step-in-a-build/34104 "2020-01-14T11:24:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![sf-infinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@sf-infinity](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/sf-infinity)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/monitoring-execution-times-of-a-specific-step-in-a-build/34104/1 "2020-01-14T11:24:08Z")

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I would like to be able to monitor and chart the execution time of a specific step in one of my builds. I have looked at the Insights tabs and it does not provide this level of data.

Does anyone know of a built in way to achieve this without posting the start/finish time off to somewhere like Grafana?

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**Author:** ![dale.francum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@dale.francum](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/dale.francum)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/monitoring-execution-times-of-a-specific-step-in-a-build/34104/2 "2020-01-15T20:27:45Z")

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We’ve done some of this before with the 1.1 API. Getting the job details, then drilling down to steps:  
[https://circleci.com/docs/api/#single-job](https://circleci.com/docs/api/#single-job)