Prefect Cloud REST API: Query Automations related to a deployment We are looking into integrating trigger definitions for deployment execution in our CI pipeline. Deploying the automation based on the trigger definition in the

deployment.yaml

is straightforward. But how do we remove the automation again on deployment removal? One thought is to retrieve the automatons related to a deployment via the REST API and then remove them (via script). This information is already shown in the Prefect UI (see screenshot). However, I could not find an API call that makes this possible. Any ideas?

Hi Tobias, I believe you're looking for these two APIs: https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs#tag/Automations/operation/read_automations_related_to_r[…]_workspace_id__automations_related_to__resource_id__get https://app.prefect.cloud/api/docs#tag/Automations/operation/delete_automations_owned_by_r[…]workspace_id__automations_owned_by__resource_id__delete Just remember that the resource IDs in this case are in Prefect Events terminology, like

prefect.deployment.abcdef01.....

Hey Chris, that sounds great. Thanks for the speedy answer! I will give it a try!

Hi, I have another question related to this. I've searched the docs and also here in slack but couldn't find anything. Adding triggers to deployment section of my prefect.yaml worked nicely but I couldn't change the action type here. Its always set to RunDeployment. Is it possible to specify actions [what we see in the RESTAPI automations endpoint] like send notification here in the yaml as well? For eg: With a yaml like below, it still creates rundeployment action here. Is this not a valid section here?

deployments:
- entrypoint: my_project/flow.py:main
  name: foo
  triggers:
  - name: Custom Trigger
    enabled: true
    type: event
    expect:
    - prefect.flow-run.Completed
    match:
      prefect.resource.id: prefect.flow-run.*
    actions:
      - type: send-notification
        block_document_id: bf277aeb-k6ab-4j47-8ee9-ib2454aa1234
        subject: test
        body: some message