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David Stern

08/31/2020, 6:32 AM
Hey everyone, I'm trying to run the cloud tutorial "Running a Flow", I've authenticated using my personal token and then run the agent with its token and this works fine, but "Run Demo Flow" simply results in an error message
"Failed to start flow run. Please wait a few moments and try again"
😅 Any ideas with what could be wrong? Searching google and this channel didn't turn anything up :/
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Jenny

08/31/2020, 2:44 PM
Hi @David Stern - can you confirm that you can see the agent running in your terminal? It should look something like this:
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David Stern

09/01/2020, 7:07 AM
Yep, I see that running!
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Jenny

09/01/2020, 4:30 PM
Hmmm... ok. I've run the tutorial a few times and can't replicate. Can you try running it from the beginning again? A few things to check as you go: 1. Do you have docker running? 2. Is your agent a docker agent (it should say at the top "Starting DockerAgent" 3. Do you see "Welcome Flow" in the list of flows in your dashboard? A few other points: The tutorial uses the metadata from when you click "deploy flow" so that button is important. You could also try clicking "run" or "quick run" from the plow page and should see your flow run from there.
Also just double checking - you're in the Prefect Server channel but the tutorial only runs in Prefect Cloud. Is your backend sent to cloud (
prefect backend cloud
)?