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Hi all,

While i execute flow manually ( from my IDE ) it works but the same if i run from the cloud UI it gets scheduled but moved to "Late" state or not running. Help Appreciated

Prefect cloud is just orchestration, not execution. You need to run a prefect agent somewhere

<https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/work-pools/|https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/work-pools/>

It worked after starting the agent in the execution environment. Thanks for your guidance.

prefect agent start --pool default-agent-pool

<https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/work-pools/|I> have couple of queries

1. How to run this agent in the background .if I exit the terminal now the agent is killed too.
2. How can we do the logging so that when the agent executes the flow in background process I can check it.

1. A lot of ways to run processes in the background. <https://gist.github.com/davydany/d33f4b5e19eab6b805b045b91d3cf858|Tmux> is one solution. You could use a systemd service, or run the agent in a <https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#detached--d|docker image with the detached option>

2. You can set up your loggers in python to <https://stackoverflow.com/a/13733863|use a filehandler to log to a file>, and/or read the streaming logs from the agent process when you reattach your terminal to the process

and/or read the logs in the prefect server UI!