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Matt Silverlock•4/18/25, 12:32 PM

OK. Looking into.

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fforres•4/18/25, 3:24 PM

I haven't had any issues so far but also haven't played with hibernation much so far

... but I want to know if my assumption is correct.

Rules of workflows stating that you should not depend on state define solely outside of a step, and workflows can use outputs of steps across their execution.

So... would somethint like this be OK?

export class MyWorkflow extends WorkflowEntrypoint {
    let someState = await step.do('define-state', async() => ....)
    
    while (x of someState) {
        await step.do('some execution', async() => ...)    
        step.sleep('xxx', '1 day') // or enough time to hibernate for example
        someState = await step.do('re-define state', async() => ...) // this sets someState to false
    }

    await step.do('we end the flow', async () => ...)
}

export class MyWorkflow extends WorkflowEntrypoint {
    let someState = await step.do('define-state', async() => ....)
    
    while (x of someState) {
        await step.do('some execution', async() => ...)    
        step.sleep('xxx', '1 day') // or enough time to hibernate for example
        someState = await step.do('re-define state', async() => ...) // this sets someState to false
    }

    await step.do('we end the flow', async () => ...)
}

export class MyWorkflow extends WorkflowEntrypoint {
    let someState = await step.do('define-state', async() => ....)
    
    while (x of someState) {
        await step.do('some execution', async() => ...)    
        step.sleep('xxx', '1 day') // or enough time to hibernate for example
        someState = await step.do('re-define state', async() => ...) // this sets someState to false
    }

    await step.do('we end the flow', async () => ...)
}

export class MyWorkflow extends WorkflowEntrypoint {
    let someState = await step.do('define-state', async() => ....)
    
    while (x of someState) {
        await step.do('some execution', async() => ...)    
        step.sleep('xxx', '1 day') // or enough time to hibernate for example
        someState = await step.do('re-define state', async() => ...) // this sets someState to false
    }

    await step.do('we end the flow', async () => ...)
}

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ByteBeast•4/19/25, 1:59 PM

Can I get workflow instance id in workflow itself? I want workflow instance id in step of that workflow.

BByteBeast Can I get workflow instance id in workflow itself? I want workflow instance id i...

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zegevlier•4/19/25, 3:01 PM

You should be able to with the

event.instanceId

event.instanceId

(https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/build/workers-api/#workflowevent)

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ByteBeast•4/19/25, 4:05 PM

@zegevlier Worked. Thank you!

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hugo martins•4/19/25, 7:01 PM

is there any plan in the future to be able to rate limit a step in a workflow (across workflow invocations )? a lot of AI endpoint are rate limited

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Craig•4/20/25, 8:22 AM

Hey guys, even though the workflow can be executed manually from the Cloudflare Dashboard, I couldn't run it using the worker's scheduled() function. Also, each scheduled event shows 0 ms time. Am I doing something wrong here?

export default {
  fetch: app.fetch,
  async scheduled(controller: ScheduledController, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext) {
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_STATUS.create();
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_RELEASE.create();
  },
};

export default {
  fetch: app.fetch,
  async scheduled(controller: ScheduledController, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext) {
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_STATUS.create();
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_RELEASE.create();
  },
};

export default {
  fetch: app.fetch,
  async scheduled(controller: ScheduledController, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext) {
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_STATUS.create();
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_RELEASE.create();
  },
};

export default {
  fetch: app.fetch,
  async scheduled(controller: ScheduledController, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext) {
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_STATUS.create();
    env.PROCESS_NOTION_RELEASE.create();
  },
};

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mattderron•4/20/25, 4:27 PM

Hello, I've been building my first workflows, and it looks like everything is working in all of the steps and they complete fine. But every time my workflow runs (whether by cron trigger or manual trigger) I get a RPC run error in the logs that looks like this. Is there an issue with how I'm executing steps or is this known behavior?

Screenshot_2025-04-20_at_11.24.21_AM.png

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Matt Silverlock•4/20/25, 9:11 PM

Known issue! Working on fixing.

MMatt Silverlock Known issue! Working on fixing.

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mattderron•4/20/25, 10:21 PM

Awesome, thanks!

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ddsgadget•4/21/25, 1:34 AM

If I console.log something in a step in a workflow, where does that message show up? I look in the cloudflare dashboard and dont see any consoles for our workflows. We have observability turned on and I can see console for regular worker functions and durable objects, but nothing from the workflow steps. where do these show up? BTW, if possible it would be great if the console logs show in the workflow dashboard for each step. Right now, you only see the result of the step in the dashboard, as far as I can teell.

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ItsWendell•4/21/25, 1:24 PM

I got something odd, where some of my workflow runs are suddenly in a "waiting" state, even though I didn't pause them or anything. I've checked and they're also not executing anything since I keep track of progress (even within steps) in a database. New workflow runs are running properly.

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ItsWendell•4/21/25, 1:40 PM

Also, is it possible to get a callback within the workflow itself when the workflow run fails? Or could I just put the entire

Workflow.run()

Workflow.run()

function ina try / catch block?

IItsWendell Also, is it possible to get a callback within the workflow itself when the workf...

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Seekerdasbatatas•4/21/25, 3:36 PM

workflows are just JS, so you can do the latter

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Isak•4/21/25, 4:40 PM

Do Workflows not support

BigInt

BigInt

?

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt

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fforres•4/21/25, 11:45 PM

Does worklows have any special consideration for

waitForEvent

waitForEvent

in terms of promises?

I have seen examples using a

Promise.race

Promise.race

like

let value = Promise.race([
  step.waitForEvent("payment success", { type: "payment-success-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
  step.waitForEvent("payment failure", { type: "payment-failure-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
])

let value = Promise.race([
  step.waitForEvent("payment success", { type: "payment-success-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
  step.waitForEvent("payment failure", { type: "payment-failure-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
])

let value = Promise.race([
  step.waitForEvent("payment success", { type: "payment-success-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
  step.waitForEvent("payment failure", { type: "payment-failure-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
])

let value = Promise.race([
  step.waitForEvent("payment success", { type: "payment-success-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
  step.waitForEvent("payment failure", { type: "payment-failure-webhook", timeout: "4 hours" ),
])

So before testing... Wondering if a

Promise.all

Promise.all

would also work?

const longArray: { id: string, data: any }[] = [
  /* imagine a lot of things here */ 
  ...
]

const bunchOfWaitForEvnts = longArray.map(item => step.waitForEvent("sub-workflow", { type: `id-${item.id}`, timeout: "4 hours" ))
const aggregatedResponses = Promise.all(bunchOfWaitForEvnts)

await step.do('do-more-stuff-with-aggregated-responses', async () => { /* */})

const longArray: { id: string, data: any }[] = [
  /* imagine a lot of things here */ 
  ...
]

const bunchOfWaitForEvnts = longArray.map(item => step.waitForEvent("sub-workflow", { type: `id-${item.id}`, timeout: "4 hours" ))
const aggregatedResponses = Promise.all(bunchOfWaitForEvnts)

await step.do('do-more-stuff-with-aggregated-responses', async () => { /* */})

const longArray: { id: string, data: any }[] = [
  /* imagine a lot of things here */ 
  ...
]

const bunchOfWaitForEvnts = longArray.map(item => step.waitForEvent("sub-workflow", { type: `id-${item.id}`, timeout: "4 hours" ))
const aggregatedResponses = Promise.all(bunchOfWaitForEvnts)

await step.do('do-more-stuff-with-aggregated-responses', async () => { /* */})

const longArray: { id: string, data: any }[] = [
  /* imagine a lot of things here */ 
  ...
]

const bunchOfWaitForEvnts = longArray.map(item => step.waitForEvent("sub-workflow", { type: `id-${item.id}`, timeout: "4 hours" ))
const aggregatedResponses = Promise.all(bunchOfWaitForEvnts)

await step.do('do-more-stuff-with-aggregated-responses', async () => { /* */})

I'm trying to simplify some flows. Like:

if I could wait for 20 events based on
```
bunchOfWaitForEvnts
```
```
bunchOfWaitForEvnts
```
Trigger 20 workflows based on
```
bunchOfWaitForEvnts
```
```
bunchOfWaitForEvnts
```
Each workflow calls
```
instance.sendEvent()
```
```
instance.sendEvent()
```
with their ID.
Then it occurred to me that this could also help with the sub-request limit?

DDivinitii I'd like to replace some of my Durable Object logic with Workflows, but it seems...

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boop•4/22/25, 8:33 AM

You could push to a queue and then batch to workflows in your consumer

Ffforres Does worklows have any special consideration for `waitForEvent` in terms of prom...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 12:47 PM

Promise.all

Promise.all

works - we don’t change how the standard promise handling works.

sendEvent

sendEvent

is still a sub-request though.

DDivinitii I'd like to replace some of my Durable Object logic with Workflows, but it seems...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 12:48 PM

What are you trying to achieve - e.g. what is the task/actual problem you are solving? Do you need the durable execution + step tracking of a workflow?

JJonathan Lister Parsons Can I sanity check something with my mental model? Should I think of a Workflow ...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 1:37 PM

It’s just a Worker. The “script” (Worker) can expose whatever it needs to: a fetch handler, a queue handler, a workflow, a DO, etc.

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 1:38 PM

My own Agent project is a Fetch handler (for handling requests) -> an Agent (DO underneath) + kicks off Workflows. All one project.

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 1:38 PM

Put another way: everything is a Worker.

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Bogdan•4/22/25, 2:25 PM

hey, how many subrequests does the cloudflare workflow can make? worker can do 1000 subrequests, but if I use workflow, each step can do 1k of subrequets, or the entire workflow limited by this amount?

MMatt Silverlock `Promise.all` works - we don’t change how the standard promise handling works. `...

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fforres•4/22/25, 3:28 PM

Gotcha

sendEvent
sendEvent
is still a sub-request though

Like from the perspective of the sender right? (I imagine I mean... but just in case?)

My thought process is that Instead of having a workflow:

Trigger 1000 sub requests
- Sub-request doing a lot of db-calls/other-workflows/etc, (Likely reaching sub-request limits)
Wait for 1000 answers
Continue execution

That workflow could instead:

Trigger 1000 workflows, (and a not await for their responses)
- Worflows being able to do up to 1000 sub-requests on their own.
Promise.all/await for 1000 events (with unique IDs)
Have every one of those other workflows call a
```
.sendEvent
```
```
.sendEvent
```
(with unique Ids)
Continue execution

Tldr, main question is that a "sub" workflow request could count towards a sub-request calculation. or are they separated?

Ffforres Gotcha 😄 > `sendEvent` is still a sub-request though Like from the perspecti...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 3:41 PM

Sender, yep. Any "API call" is a sub-request.

JJonathan Lister Parsons Ok great, so one Worker can export a fetch handler as well as define multiple Wo...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 3:41 PM

Yep. It can all be in separate files, or even further. It's just code!

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Focux•4/22/25, 5:07 PM

FYI, I just spent half a day trying to figure out why sending events was throwing this error

Error: (workflow.invalid_event_type) Provided event type is invalid

Error: (workflow.invalid_event_type) Provided event type is invalid

, and it was because it doesn't work with long-ish event names. I was using a UUID as the event name, and it wasn't working...

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Focux•4/22/25, 5:08 PM

Not sure whether this is a bug or it is intended, if the latter, it would be good to add it to the docs

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fredviken•4/22/25, 5:23 PM

I got cross-script calls to work locally using the "-c" option, but not when running them with separate dev commands. Is this a known limitation? If so it would be nice if it was mentioned in the docs

FFocux FYI, I just spent half a day trying to figure out why sending events was throwin...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 6:51 PM

you mean

step.waitForEvent("name", { type: "here" })

step.waitForEvent("name", { type: "here" })

how long do you need it to be?

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Focux•4/22/25, 6:55 PM

i mean

instance.sendEvent({ type: "here" })

instance.sendEvent({ type: "here" })

, that's where it was throwing the error

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Focux•4/22/25, 6:56 PM

and i was using a third-party UUID as the type, so it would be good if it were a bit longer than a normal uuid?

FFocux and i was using a third-party UUID as the type, so it would be good if it were a...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 9:11 PM

OK, let us go fix. What works - like 65 bytes? 100 bytes? (the larger the ID the less your event payload, since they share the same underlying RPC limit)

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Focux•4/22/25, 9:17 PM

i think 100 bytes would be perfect, and if possible, a more helpful error message

FFocux i think 100 bytes would be perfect, and if possible, a more helpful error messag...

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Matt Silverlock•4/22/25, 9:27 PM

OK, let me chat w/ team - have some other stuff we need to solve but we try to avoid holding back quick wins like this

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BiffBaffBoff•4/23/25, 1:14 PM

If I have a cloudflare worker using nuxt, is it also possible to have workflows in the same worker? If so, how do I achieve this because the main script is generated after build, so how would I export my workflow from it?

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Boragorn•4/23/25, 6:36 PM

I'm experiencing some cases where new workflow instances are being created and remain in the

queued

queued

status forever

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fredviken•4/24/25, 11:15 AM

When using worker environments (e.g. test, prod) should the workflows have different names for each envrionment? like e.g my-workflow-test and my-workflow-prod? or can they have they use the same name?

MMatt Silverlock I like to say: Workflows are just code. Call steps conditionally, use Promise.al...

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Sam•4/24/25, 2:44 PM

Can you stop the whole workflow like this rather than having to run a repetitive check inside every subsequent step?

step.do () => {
return { stopWorkflow: true }
}

if(stopWorkflow) return;

step.do () => {
// some other step code that will never execute if stopWorkflow did an early return above
}

step.do () => {
// another step here that will never execute if stop workflow did early return
}

SSam Can you stop the whole workflow like this rather than having to run a repetitive...

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Matt Silverlock•4/24/25, 3:25 PM

Throw a

NonRetryableError

NonRetryableError

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/build/workers-api/#nonretryableerror

Cloudflare Docs

Workers API · Cloudflare Workflows docs

This guide details the Workflows API within Cloudflare Workers, including methods, types, and usage examples.

MMatt Silverlock Throw a `NonRetryableError` - https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/build/...

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Sam•4/24/25, 3:33 PM

Thank you Matt!

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kchro3•4/24/25, 8:32 PM

We had a workflow that was triggered by a Worker's cron schedule, but even after we removed the cron schedule in the Worker and removed the workflow configuration in wrangler, we're still seeing that the workflow is getting triggered.

Any idea what could be happening?

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kchro3•4/24/25, 8:33 PM

I don't see any APIs for deactivating a workflow, too...

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kchro3•4/24/25, 8:42 PM

I think I figured it out, we didn't remove the cron trigger in the wrangler.toml, so I guess it's still able to call the dead endpoint? Not sure how that's possible

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andifined.dev•4/25/25, 11:50 AM

Hello! I hope you're all doing well!

I'm having an issue with Astro and Cloudflare Workers. My goal is to integrate a workflow within my Astro app, but I'm encountering the following build error:

Worker "workflows:generate-dataset"'s binding "USER_WORKFLOW" refers to service "core:user:web" with a named entrypoint "GenerateDataset", but "core:user:web" has no such named entrypoint.
08:05:33 [ERROR] [@astrojs/cloudflare]

I've defined my workflow within a file in a custom directory, and I suspect that the workflow isn't being bundled into the dist/index.js as declared in wrangler.jsonc.

Does anyone know what I might be missing here? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is my astro configuration:
astro.config.mjs
// @ts-check
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import cloudflare from '@astrojs/cloudflare';
import tailwindcss from '@tailwindcss/vite';
import preact from '@astrojs/preact';
import path from 'path';

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
output: 'server',
adapter: cloudflare({
platformProxy: {
enabled: true
}
}),
vite: {
plugins: [tailwindcss()],
resolve: {
alias: {
'@': path.resolve('./src'),
'@components': path.resolve('./src/components'),
'@layouts': path.resolve('./src/layouts'),
'@stores': path.resolve('./src/stores'),
'@db': path.resolve('./db'),
'@utils': path.resolve('./utils'),
}
}
},
integrations: [preact()],
});

If you need more information, please let me know!

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William•4/25/25, 1:11 PM

Hello my friends, I am using workflows to do async tasks. I call API of my AI provider using fetch, and my API provider did not using Cloudflare as proxy. But I am seeing HTTP 524 response after 100 secnds, I wonder if the subrequests in workflows have default 100 seconds timeout?

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