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Hello, i was wondering if there was a way to retrieve current flow run metadata such as id or time elapsed inside the code ?

Is this a question for Prefect 2.0 or 1.0 <@U036AU0JB4H>?

the short answer is yes, but for things such as duration, you may need to do more work to get it <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html#context>

e.g.
```prefect.context.get("flow_run_id")
prefect.context.get("flow_id")```
there is also scheduled_start_time

depends on what you want to do, but context is a good place to get more info

there's also FlowRunView <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/backend/flow_run.html#flowrunview> but a bit more advanced and more "heavy" since this actually performs GraphQL queries under the hood

oh nice it is inside context. Thanks a lot !