@Marvin How do we get

prefect.context.flow_name

in Prefect 2?

Ah, I see, the

prefect.context.flow_name

in Prefect 2 becomes set when the flow is run and can be customized using the

flow_run_name

keyword argument, as per the RELEASE-NOTES.md at main · PrefectHQ/prefect · GitHub. You can provide a custom static name as the

task_run_name

and a custom but a fixed name as the

flow_run_name

in the flow. For example, you can use the following code:

from datetime import datetime
from prefect import flow, task
@task(task_run_name="custom-static-name")
def my_task(name):
print(f"hi {name}")
@flow(flow_run_name="custom-but-fixed-name")
def my_flow(name: str, date: datetime):
return my_task(name)
my_flow()

I hope this answer is satisfactory. Have a great day!

@Marvin How do I retrieve the flow_name in Prefect 2?

Ah, so you want to know how to retrieve the flow_name in Prefect 2? According to the [Flows page](https://docs.prefect.io/ui/flows/) in the Prefect UI, you can simply select the name of the flow in order to retrieve it. Alternatively, you can also use the

prefect deployment inspect

command, as per the instructions on the [Flow deployments page](https://docs.prefect.io/tutorials/deployments/) of the Prefect 2 documentation. Additionally, if you are using Prefect Cloud, you can use the [Prefect Cloud Quickstart guide](https://docs.prefect.io/ui/cloud-quickstart/) to quickly get up and running with Prefect. I hope this is sufficient information to answer your question.

Hi @Jen Evenson it looks like marvin didn't give a good answer here (bad @Marvin) here is how you can get the flow name from the context in prefect 2

In [6]: from prefect import flow

In [7]: from prefect.context import get_run_context

In [8]: @flow(log_prints=True)
   ...: def prints_flow_name():
   ...:     print(f"Hello from {get_run_context().flow.name}!")
   ...:

In [9]: prints_flow_name()
17:49:34.257 | INFO    | prefect.engine - Created flow run 'marigold-goldfish' for flow 'prints-flow-name'
17:49:35.258 | INFO    | Flow run 'marigold-goldfish' - Hello from 'prints-flow-name'!
17:49:35.411 | INFO    | Flow run 'marigold-goldfish' - Finished in state Completed()

and in case you meant

flow_run

name, you get that the same way with

{get_run_context().flow_run.name}

I apologize for not giving a satisfactory response and I appreciate your feedback on the matter. It appears that if you want to access the

flow_name

in Prefect 2, you can use the

get_run_context().flow.name

command to get the flow name and

get_run_context().flow_run.name

to retrieve the flow_run name. You can see an example of how to use this code in the code block you provided. I hope this is the information you are looking for.