Follow-Up Question: I successfully triggered a flow via an API call 🙂 However, it remains in

PENDING

. I successfully submitted it with

deployment_id

, but it still remains in

PENDING

😕 I tried to submit it with

work_pool

but that does not seem to be a valid request? I read the docs but it is not clear to me, which role

work_pool

,

deployment

and

work queue

have 🤔 PS: The successful run was triggered in UI, without setting anything different than the flow defaults.

has the deployment got the correct work queue

Ah, got it! Looks better indeed, although the agent seems to not pick them up for some reason 🤔

ah neat

@Jeff Hale, what is the reason behind putting it to "PENDING" by default? May be less confusing for starters to set it to

SCHEDULED

by default?

I had the same issue with using the REST API to trigger flow runs for the first time. I have also seen others having the same concern in the community channel but no one has addressed the issue. I fully agree with making it SCHEDULED by default. Going to PENDING and never getting picked up by work queue seems completely pointless. See this other recent thread by someone else: https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1680121475686169

Thank you for the feedback! I’m not sure of the reasoning but will raise with the team.

Thank you!

My apologies for allowing this confusing behavior to persist for so long. I've created a issue for it. We will likely make this change this week. Thanks for calling this to my attention @Jeff Hale, @Robin, and @Carlos Cueto.

Well, on the positive side it forced me to look into things deeper, but new users will probably be delighted that it just works right away 🙂

Great thread. To summarize the right way to submit a flow run. is this way. Also remember you need to have an agent running. You can do it via CLI or refer recipies for examples of running agents in the cloud

curl --location --request POST '<https://api.prefect.cloud/api/accounts/><account_id>/workspaces/<workspace_id>/deployments/<deployment_id>/create_flow_run' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <api_token>' \
--header 'X-PREFECT-API-VERSION: 0.8.4' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "my-flow-run",
    "idempotency_key": "string",
    "infrastructure_document_id":"<see deployment screen for this id>",
    "state": {
        "type": "SCHEDULED"
    }
}'