Documentation Grafana Cloud Platform Workflows Observe runs

Observe workflow runs

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:

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 You don’t need to refresh manually unless the panel looks out of date.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.

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 and Sample event payloads.

Next steps

• Configure triggers
• Create workflows
• Sample event payloads
• Step and trigger types reference