Prefect Cloud gives our Flow Runs cute names like beautiful

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Prefect Cloud gives our Flow Runs cute names like beautiful cricket industrious turkey etc Is this name accessible inside of the Flow s execution We d like to tag some external resources w this name so we could easily know which Flow made those resources for debugging

Jeremiah · Answer

Hi < jars> you should be able to access the name in `prefect context get flow run name ` during runtime

Jeremiah · Answer

For a full list of context variables please see <https docs prefect io api latest utilities context html context|this doc>

jars · Answer

amazing thx

Jeremiah · Answer

In addition keep an eye on <https github com PrefectHQ server pull 77|this PR> which will allow you to customize the name however you want

Jeremiah · Answer

yes you got it Let us know if that doesn t work for any reason

Jeremiah · Answer

If it helps your use case note that names are not guaranteed to be unique though there are many of them so you won t see repeats for a while `flow run id` will be unique

jars · Answer

Appreciate that it will just be for informational purposes We won t rely on it for uniqueness Thank you

jars · Answer

< Jeremiah> it looks like we don t get the cute run name when using `flow run name` This variable seems to be populated with the `flow run id` stuck out tongue

jars · Answer

Nevermind it totally works

Pedro Machado · Answer

I have a slightly different use case for meaningful flow run names that are generated by the scheduler when there are many clocks with parameters Not sure if this would also help you Jordan <https github com PrefectHQ prefect issues 3010|https github com PrefectHQ prefect issues 3010>

jars · Answer

Thanks Pedro