Hi all I am having a weird bug with Block documents using a self hosted prefect server: I am able to connect to the client and everything is fine but for some reason this weird

ephemeral-client

url gets injected... what is going on/ what am I doing wrong? I set the configs and env vars

17    raise PrefectHTTPStatusError.from_httpx_error(exc) from exc.__cause__18prefect.exceptions.PrefectHTTPStatusError: Client error '404 Not Found' for url '<http://ephemeral-prefect/api/block_documents/782ccd86-fa13-40a6-8e89-278adb4aec24?include_secrets=true'19Response>: {'detail': 'Block document not found'}

hey, this means PREFECT_API_URL isn’t set on the client. So it’s not talking to your hosted server, it’s using the ephemeral api instead.

@Jake Kaplan thank you for your speedy answer, this is what we have anticipated but we are explicitly setting it in an

__init__

function

Yea I felt like that may be the issue and I explicitly set this multiple times in 3 different ways @Jake Kaplan

class MulticastPrefectOperator:

    def __init__(self, settings: MulticastInfraSettings = MulticastInfraSettings()):
        PREFECT_API_URL = "<https://dev.prefect.get-clarity.io/api>"
        os.environ["PREFECT_API_URL"] = PREFECT_API_URL
        os.system(f"prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL={PREFECT_API_URL}")

        self.settings = settings
        self.prefect_client: PrefectClient = PrefectClient(api="<https://dev.prefect.our-domain-foo.io/api>")

Normally you would set that in your profile.

prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=...

or set as an env var on the machine so it gets picked up in the settings context

yep- want to query flow runs

I see. I would try looking at the docs I linked to set

PREFECT_API_URL

in the two ways I mentioned above, so it will be set for the entire context at the start of the process