Monitor and cancel a running workflow
Goal: watch an in-progress workflow and cancel it only when cancellation is a valid run action.
- Start a workflow from its definition node, or open an already in-progress workflow run from the definition's run search.
- Read the current status from the workflow run node. The run preview shows whether the run is pending, running, completed, failed, or cancellable.
- Choose Open Timeline to watch progress. The timeline lets you inspect ordered events without materializing every event in the graph.
- Use Show Run Steps when you need graph context for the current execution path. Reveal run steps deliberately rather than flooding the map by default.
- Use Cancel Run only when the run status supports cancellation. The action is explicit because it changes the underlying run.
- Verify cancellation through the run node status and timeline events. A cancelled run should show cancellation status and a corresponding event trail.
- For completed, failed, or otherwise non-cancellable runs, recognize that Cancel Run is not shown. Inspect the timeline or payloads instead.
You are done when the running workflow either reaches a terminal status naturally or shows a clear cancelled status with timeline evidence.
