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Is there a way to delete late flows? We have 6,000+ queued up over the weekend and don't want to delete them manually. I turned on some automation to remove them but it doesn't seem to work retroactively

found it
<https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1686669412262099?thread_ts=1686650785.248449&amp;cid=CL09KU1K7>

Using our API might be the right call here:

Here is an example file:
<https://discourse.prefect.io/t/example-of-filtering-task-run-data-with-prefects-rest-api/2957>

<https://docs.prefect.io/2.10.21/api-ref/rest-api/#interacting-with-the-rest-api>

<https://docs.prefect.io/2.10.21/api-ref/rest-api-reference/#tag/Flow-Runs/operation/delete_flow_run_flow_runs__id__delete>