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Arlo Bryer

03/25/2020, 12:02 PM
Hi - when we cancel a flow from Prefect Cloud it appears the jobs/tasks within continue to run. Are we misunderstanding something here?
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Chris White

03/25/2020, 2:15 PM
Hi Arlo - unfortunately we learned this feature wasn’t working as expected and so we are currently in the process of redesigning it. Right now “cancelling” a flow run is purely a bookkeeping action and does not tear down the flow run itself - apologies for the confusion
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Arlo Bryer

03/25/2020, 3:16 PM
ah! I see. Hmm ok.
So @Chris White - in practice, a
cancellation
doesn’t really do anything other than mark as cancelled in the UI. I.e. anything the flow/tasks within were doing can be assumed to be still going?
@Kostas Chalikias - FYI.
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Chris White

03/25/2020, 3:19 PM
That is correct as of today; we do have planned work to address this but I don’t expect it to be out for a bit
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Arlo Bryer

03/25/2020, 3:31 PM
cool, thanks. That’s helpful
definitely +1 for this feature!
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Chris White

03/25/2020, 3:36 PM
💯 Noted!