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Is there any way to get the name/id/etc. of the task that failed in a flow? Idea being to be able to put in a slack message which task in the flow failed.

Where are you trying to get it from? The API? The actual python code in the flow?

That is a very good question. I wonder if you could get it out of the state attribute. Hopefully someone else has an actual answer

Okay, yeah would be a nice treat to see which task failed :smile:

Poked around some - most likely candidate seems to be *`task_run_results`* via your <https://docs.prefect.io/api-ref/prefect/context/?h=get_run_conte#prefect.context.FlowRunContext|docs> - but i’m not sure how i’d pull the task name from that. locally testing, and i’m not sure how to get a failed task and also get metadata from `get_run_context`