Prefect Cloud gives our Flow Runs cute names like ...
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jars
09/17/2020, 6:08 PMPrefect 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.
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Jeremiah
09/17/2020, 6:09 PM
Hi @jars you should be able to access the name in
prefect.context.get('flow_run_name')Jeremiah
09/17/2020, 6:09 PM
For a full list of context variables please see this doc.
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jars
09/17/2020, 6:09 PMamazing, thx!!
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Jeremiah
09/17/2020, 6:10 PM
In addition, keep an eye on this PR which will allow you to customize the name however you want.
Jeremiah
09/17/2020, 6:10 PM
👌 you got it! Let us know if that doesn’t work for any reason
Jeremiah
09/17/2020, 6:11 PM
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!).
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jars
09/17/2020, 6:13 PMAppreciate that, it will just be for informational purposes. We won't rely on it for uniqueness. Thank you!
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jars
09/17/2020, 9:00 PM@Jeremiah; it looks like we don't get the cute run name when using
flow_run_nameflow_run_idjars
09/17/2020, 11:24 PMNevermind, it totally works!
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Pedro Machado
09/18/2020, 6:49 PMI 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
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jars
09/18/2020, 8:39 PMThanks Pedro!