Anyone know how to kill a Cloud flow run that just won t die

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Anyone know how to kill a Cloud flow run that just won t die I exhausted my free plan quota in the middle of a large mapped task and started getting thousands of usage exceeded messages We ll obviously upgrade our plan but that flow run won t seem to die I ve tried canceling it and manually setting its state but the duration continues to advance run ID is `42036d0b 6443 4648 8c93 50c2ac6a360c`

nicholas · Answer

Hi < Devin McCabe> if Prefect isn t able to cancel your run the easiest way to stop it would be to tear down the job process that s running your flow which will depend on your setup

Devin McCabe · Answer

Yeah it was ECS+Dask and everything is already stopped

Devin McCabe · Answer

I can try stopping the agent too

nicholas · Answer

Sorry just to check after tearing down the container your flow is still trying to set states thinking face

nicholas · Answer

If it s just the duration still climbing in the UI that s fine the duration will cap when the run fails its heartbeat check or enters a finished state it s a calculated duration that is based on the run `start time` and `end time` if the run is still in a `Cancelling` state it hasn t finished from what Cloud can tell even if nothing is running You can manually set this state to `Finished` or `Failed` to cap this

Devin McCabe · Answer

No it s effectively not doing anything anymore log has stopped all tasks failed or canceled The only indication it s not fully stopped is that the duration isn t stopping like seen here

Devin McCabe · Answer

Ok got it Won t worry about it then

nicholas · Answer

Ok let me know if you re still having trouble with it and we can try to triage further