Inspect a run timeline and payloads without flooding the graph
Goal: understand what happened in a workflow run while materializing only the details you need.
- Open a workflow definition and use its run search to find the run you want to inspect.
- Open the workflow run node.
- Choose Open Timeline. Space opens
workflow-run-timeline:<run-id>so you can browse ordered events without materializing every event node by default. - Use timeline event search to materialize one event when that event needs graph context.
- Choose Show Run Steps only when all run steps are useful to see as graph nodes.
- Open run-step and event full views for multiline payloads, logs, outputs, and errors. Dense JSON, Fennel forms, and long text belong in editor-style panels, not single-line preview labels.
- Use Cancel Run only when the run status supports cancellation. Completed and otherwise non-cancellable runs do not show that action.
- If the visible working set becomes too dense, remove graph nodes manually from the map. Manual cleanup preserves the rule that materialization is explicit and map-local.
You are done when the timeline and selected payload views answer the run question without turning the graph into an indiscriminate event dump.
