Observe workflow runs
Note
Grafana Workflows is currently in private preview. Grafana Labs offers support on a best-effort basis, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.
The Workflows editor includes a Latest runs panel that shows the most recent executions of the workflow you’re editing. Use this panel to confirm that a workflow ran, see how each step behaved, and read the inputs and outputs each step produced.
Open the Latest runs panel
The panel opens from the editor header:
- In the editor, click the arrow next to Run in the header.
The panel opens on the right side of the editor and lists up to the 10 most recent runs for this workflow.
To close the panel, click the X icon in the panel header. To force a refresh, click the Refresh icon.
Read run statuses
Each run in the panel shows a status, the time the run started, and a status icon:
The panel updates live as the engine emits step events. You don’t need to refresh manually unless you suspect the panel is out of sync.
Inspect a run’s steps
Select a run in the panel to expand it. The expanded view lists every step in the workflow with:
- The step’s status icon.
- The step’s name and type.
- The step duration when the step finished.
- A short list of inputs or outputs inline.
Pending steps that haven’t started yet are dimmed. Steps that ran show a kebab menu (…) on the right side of the row.
View full step inputs and outputs
To see the full input and output for a step:
- Click the kebab menu on the step.
- Select View details.
The View details dialog shows:
- The step’s status, type, scheduled time, completed time, and duration.
- The instance ID and execution ID, both with a copy-to-clipboard button.
- The complete input JSON the step received.
- The complete output JSON the step produced (or the error message if the step failed).
Use the instance ID and execution ID to correlate a run with logs or external systems.
Trigger a fresh run from the same payload
The panel does not include a direct replay action. To re-run the workflow with the same payload:
- Open the View details dialog on the first step of the run you want to replay.
- Copy the input JSON.
- Click Run in the editor header.
- In the Trigger Workflow dialog, paste the JSON into the event body.
- Click Trigger Workflow.
For details on the manual-trigger event shape, refer to Sample event payloads.
