Hi all, Using prefect cloud here; is there any way of automatically cleaning up old flow-runs, say I don't need anything > 24 hours old? Its starting to clog up a bit and running a script manually feels a bit strange since I don't like running manual stuff -- sort of what I got prefect for in the first place 🙂 Thanks!

hi @Robin Doornekamp while I don't think there's a first-class feature specifically for cleaning up old flows after some time interval (besides our data retention policy), it sounds like this could be a pretty quick flow to write and schedule if you wanted probably just: • read_flow_runs with a flow_run_filter to grab all flow runs older than X • delete_flow_run by ID for each matching flow run

@Nate Yeah thats what I'm doing; was just curious if there was some configuration outside of the data retention -- but ill just stick with running a flow to clean up the flows then. Thanks for the reply!

okay! out of curiosity, what would be your ideal UX here? I can open an enhancement ticket

Thanks for inquiring; let me think; I've noticed that I have no real purpose to have historic flow runs around for longer than

x

days; they kind of clutter up the view and make the UI a bit slow. I would have maybe expected some kind of configuration; almost on workspace level, for how long these things are retained. I'm not a UX designer but the first place I looked was if there was some kind of workspace-level settings or deployment settings (because I thought maybe retention is different for different ones). So ideally for me would be; I can configure a retention time for finished flow runs.

thanks for the feedback @Robin Doornekamp!