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title: "Observe workflow runs | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Inspect and debug Grafana Workflows runs from the Latest runs panel in the editor, including run statuses, step inputs and outputs, and run history."
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# Observe workflow runs

> Note
> 
> Grafana Workflows is currently in [public preview](/docs/release-life-cycle/). Grafana Labs offers limited support, 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 runs 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:

1. 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 **Close** (**X**) in the panel header. To force a refresh, click **Refresh latest runs**.

## Read run statuses

Each run in the panel shows a status, the time the run started, and a status icon:

Expand table

| Status      | Meaning                                                                     |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Running** | The run started and at least one step is still in progress.                 |
| **Success** | The run finished without errors, including runs that a filter step stopped. |
| **Failed**  | A step returned an error and the workflow stopped.                          |

The panel updates as each step starts and finishes. You don’t need to refresh manually unless the panel looks out of date.

A step that ran past its execution timeout shows as **Failed** with a message such as `step "notify-team" (slack.message.post) timed out after 5m0s`. There’s no separate timeout status. For details, refer to [Troubleshoot](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/troubleshoot/#a-step-times-out).

## 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 type.
- The step duration when the step finished.
- A short list of inputs or outputs inline.

Steps that haven’t started are dimmed. Disabled steps are also dimmed and labeled **Disabled**. Steps that ran show a **Step options** menu (**⋮**) on the right side of the row.

### View full step inputs and outputs

To see the full input and output for a step:

1. Click **Step options** (**⋮**) on the step.
2. Select **View details**.

The **View details** dialog box 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 identify the run, for example, when you use the runs API or contact Grafana Support.

## Run a workflow again

To run a workflow again, start a new run from the editor. Workflows doesn’t store the triggering event with a run, so you provide the event data each time.

1. Click **Run** in the editor header.
2. In the **Trigger Workflow** dialog box, select a sample from the **Example Event** list and edit its values, or enter your own event data in **Event Data (JSON)**.
3. Click **Trigger Workflow**.

The **Example Event** list appears when the workflow has an event trigger for an incident, alert group, or on-call schedule event.

For details, refer to [Trigger workflows manually](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/configure-triggers/#trigger-workflows-manually) and [Sample event payloads](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/reference/event-payloads).

## Next steps

- [Configure triggers](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/configure-triggers)
- [Create workflows](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/create-workflows)
- [Sample event payloads](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/reference/event-payloads)
- [Step and trigger types reference](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/workflows/reference)