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Hey prefect
I wanted to know what causes a state flow to crash ?
What is the difference between , failed / crashed and timeout?
I have seen these log messages where, if I have a automation condition set up and the flow falls into the conditional state, the flow get crashed. And the prefect agent log has a log message saying, the flow run was cancelled by runtime environment.
M I getting this right ? Is this the only way the runs go into crash state ? What others reasons prompts to crash state ?

I currently have no automation set up but I can still see similar crash flows and agent log messages.
Even though the agent is running, the agent has a log , 'executing the flow immediately' but never get completed and the flows gets stuck in running state for few hours , later show up as crashed.

High level Crashed states are typically an indication of some infrastructure event, a common example would be a container running the flow experiences an error and exits, failed states are related to some code failure typically with the flow but this can be related to issues deploying a flow as well from the agent.

Hopefully that helps clarify a bit :smile: