Earlier this week there were a few new announcements related to Microsoft Flow. One of the important once for me is the option to find failed flows.

When I build flows I often use my Try-Catch pattern. One problem with this however is that all my flows will always be successful.

Microsoft Flow - How to find your failed flows? Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office 365 runhistorysuccess

Can you recognise the failed flow? Well, I can’t! Opening each flow and then checking if something went wrong can be a painful process.

But not anymore!

Open your flow in Microsoft Flow and select the See analytics option:

Microsoft Flow - How to find your failed flows? Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office 365 analytics

Within the Error tab you will now see all errors that have occurred in any of your actions over the last 30, 14 or 7 days!

Microsoft Flow - How to find your failed flows? Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office 365 erroranalytice

But that is not all!

It is time to zoom in on the Error details section:

Microsoft Flow - How to find your failed flows? Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office 365 errordetails

Simply click on the last error detail link and you are straight into the Run history for that failed flow:

 

Microsoft Flow - How to find your failed flows? Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office 365 failureflow

Wow, this is absolutely awesome! I can now fix all my issues in less than no time!

 

 

Avatar for Pieter Veenstra

By Pieter Veenstra

Business Applications Microsoft MVP working as the Head of Power Platform at Vantage 365. You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com

3 thoughts on “Microsoft Flow – How to find your failed flows?”
  1. It’s great – though it seems at the moment to be limited to only seeing the last error, not all of them. Still, it’s a leap forwards. Thanks for alerting me to this, and thanks all your other posts.

    1. It is indeed limited to the last failure only. I found however that each of the failing actions only fails in one way. So going through the failures one at a time and fixing them makes this a great way to get your flow robust.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Discover more from SharePains by Microsoft MVP Pieter Veenstra

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading