Sagemaker Pipeline FailStep Error Message Not Shown

Question

I created a Sagemaker pipeline using Python SDK containing a fail step with a custom error message, which is part of a condition step, as seen at the bottom of this post.
 
Whenever  the execution of the pipeline fails due to the fact that the trained model's accuracy is lower than the threshold, the FailStep custom error message is not displayed anywhere: not in the stdout console where Im running the pipeline script, not in the CloudWatch logs and nowhere in the AWS Sagemaker Console. The pipeline execution simply fails with some general WaiterError message:
> botocore.exceptions.WaiterError: Waiter PipelineExecutionComplete failed: Waiter encountered a terminal failure state: For expression "PipelineExecutionStatus" we matched expected path: "Failed"

Therefore, I have no way to know why did the pipeline failed.... What am I missing here? Where can I find the FailStep message **at runtime**?

```
step_fail = FailStep(
        name="AccuracyFailStep",
        error_message=Join(on=" ", values=["Execution failed due to binary accuracy < ", accuracy_threshold]),
)

step_cond = ConditionStep(
        name="CheckAccuracyEvaluationStep",
        conditions=[cond_lte],
        if_steps=[step_create_model, step_register_model, step_deploy_model],
        else_steps=[step_fail]
)
```

Answer

Once the FailStep is reached, the execution fails and the error message is set as the failure reason. To be more specific, this step will first fail the pipeline exection, which results in the waiter timeout. Then it will record your provided message as failure reason in meta data of this execution.

This failure reason field will be available when you call describe pipelien execution api. In the response, as described in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/APIReference/API_DescribePipelineExecution.html#API_DescribePipelineExecution_ResponseSyntax

Sagemaker Pipeline FailStep Error Message Not Shown

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