Hello everyone, I want to know how much time duration workflow can stay running? like if I set 5 del

Hello everyone, I want to know how much time duration workflow can stay running? like if I set 5 delay for one year will it stay up for 5 years?

BByteBeast Hello everyone, I want to know how much time duration workflow can stay running?...

avenceslau•9/30/25, 1:50 PM

It depends on what you mean by stay up. If you do 5 one year sleeps your workflow instance will "hibernate" for one year 5 times, yielding concurrency to other instances while it sleeps. It will awaken after every year and go back to sleep. The workflow does not use compute while it sleeps.

Frank•9/30/25, 5:31 PM

currently using a DO for threadlock so only 1 workflow is triggered per user. is there a better way?

.r20•9/30/25, 6:46 PM

why not use d1?

.r20•9/30/25, 6:47 PM

that way you dont deal with the costs associated by provisioning a DO

.r20•9/30/25, 6:48 PM

just keep some minimal d1 table

Frank•9/30/25, 6:48 PM

there are additinoal costs vs. D1?

Frank•9/30/25, 6:48 PM

i was not aware of that

.r20•9/30/25, 6:48 PM

so with DO u are billed by work so GB/s

Frank•9/30/25, 6:48 PM

ah. got it

.r20•9/30/25, 6:49 PM

and theres a cost associated just for provisioning a DO since it takes x amount of work to provision

.r20•9/30/25, 6:49 PM

i believe

.r20•9/30/25, 6:49 PM

and also ur billed for wall time keep that in mind

FFrank there are additinoal costs vs. D1?

.r20•9/30/25, 6:50 PM

as for the d1 stuff ur just charged for rows read and written which is way cheaper and simpler for ur use case

Frank•9/30/25, 7:00 PM

@.r20 good pts. was going to test using DO sqlite to store user data and implement FTS5 for search

Frank•9/30/25, 7:00 PM

that seems expensive now that I realized wall time is charged

.r20•9/30/25, 7:00 PM

yeah

.r20•9/30/25, 7:01 PM

thats why i dont use it. if there isnt a true need for it i might as well save

Nathan Scheele•10/1/25, 6:13 PM

Has anyone encountered Workflows failing with the following error: (instance.in_finite_state) Instance reached a finite state, cannot send events to it(instance.in_finite_state) Instance reached a finite state, cannot send events to it

orangesbracelet•10/1/25, 6:23 PM

in workflow step if we want to return not just from step also from workflow successfully what can we do, do you have any idea ? I mean is there any equivalent form of non retryable error

adam•10/2/25, 3:41 AM

is it an antipattern to use workflows to manage many timers in order to get around durable object alarm limitations

stephen•10/3/25, 7:52 AM

Within a Workflow, can you run a Workflow Step in parallel?

For example: The AI SDK allows parallel execution of a step: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/build/workers-api/#call-workflows-from-workers

And so does Mastra: https://mastra.ai/en/docs/workflows/control-flow#simultaneous-steps-with-parallel

It's not clear if Workflows have this feature.

Cloudflare Docs

Workers API

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

Branching, Merging, Conditions | Workflows | Mastra Docs

Control flow in Mastra workflows allows you to manage branching, merging, and conditions to construct workflows that meet your logic requirements.

daisy•10/3/25, 5:53 PM

Do you guys recommend migrating towards workflows from queues to improve latency?

Gabriel Francisco•10/3/25, 9:13 PM

hey, do workflows waitForEvent also have the maximum duration/timeout of 1 year?

Ddaisy Do you guys recommend migrating towards workflows from queues to improve latency...

Gabriel Francisco•10/3/25, 9:13 PM

they are different products, it depends on your implementation

Ssimstone.eth Hi everyone 👋 I'm experiencing an issue where **workflow instances are stuck i...

Peps•10/7/25, 10:01 AM

can you link your account and also post some related (workflow) IDs, in case a CF employee coming across your post wants to take a look at it?

SuperHelpflare•10/7/25, 10:01 AM

Please use the /link command to authenticate with your Cloudflare account and link it to your Discord user. This helps Cloudflare employees access your details more quickly and provide support. It also makes future support requests easier, since your account will already be linked.

Aavenceslau It depends on what you mean by stay up. If you do 5 one year sleeps your workflo...

ByteBeastOP•10/7/25, 11:03 AM

@avenceslau | Workflows Thanks, and I have some do steps, if any step got failed and it's maximum retry also got failed so can i retry it manually by any way? cloudflare doesn't provide API for that but by doing any hack can I achieve manual retry for any step?

Shivek•10/7/25, 1:17 PM

What's the reason to have a 1000 api request limit per worker ?

--
Context:
I built a global rate limiter using DO because my workflows needed to call multiple third party services with strict rate limits.

Everything works fine locally but on prod, one partcular heavy step just fails. Why? because only 1000 api calls can be made in worker.

SShivek What's the reason to have a 1000 api request limit per worker ? -- Context: I ...

Peps•10/7/25, 1:26 PM

1000 subrequests can be made per invocation, so basically each time the worker is hit. It's not in total for the entire lifespan of the worker

Peps•10/7/25, 1:26 PM

unless you need to send 1000 requests to third parties for every single request that hits your worker, it won't be a problem

Peps•10/7/25, 1:28 PM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/#how-many-subrequests-can-i-make

Mm0c Aloha, is there an easy way to find all logs from a workflow instance? I think i...

avenceslau•10/7/25, 2:53 PM

Not currently no, sorry about that. Its on our roadmap we will get to it :soontm:

avenceslau•10/7/25, 3:00 PM

I find that the best way to debug a workflow is to run is to add additional steps and use their results messages as logs (this is my what I personally what I do when I do need to have more immediate logs). Logs do appear in workers observability but only when the workflow instance stops running which is not ideal.

Mm0c Aloha, is there an easy way to find all logs from a workflow instance? I think i...

avenceslau•10/7/25, 3:08 PM

This is not ideal but will get you live-ish logs for an instance (I don't recommend having this in production but while you test, it can be helpful)

await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => {
  return 'this is how I log, and it will show up as the result of this step'
})

const myResult = await step.do() // this step returns something that we want to log
await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => {
  if(myResult) {
    return `You can also log results ${JSON.stringify(myResult)}`
  }
  else {
    return `Result is not defined`
  }  
})

await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => {
  return 'this is how I log, and it will show up as the result of this step'
})

const myResult = await step.do() // this step returns something that we want to log
await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => {
  if(myResult) {
    return `You can also log results ${JSON.stringify(myResult)}`
  }
  else {
    return `Result is not defined`
  }  
})

BlockMinister•10/7/25, 3:39 PM

Hey guys, I'm seeing a crazy number of random "Attempt failed due to internal workflows error" effects in various different Workflow steps. How can i get further info as to whats causing it? I've trawled the logs but can see nothing that would indicate anything abnormal.

Matt Silverlock•10/9/25, 8:52 PM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-10-09-workflows-terraform/

Cloudflare Docs

You can now deploy and manage Workflows in Terraform

You can now deploy and manage Workflows in Terraform, using the Cloudflare Terraform provider v5.11.0.

PPeps 1000 subrequests can be made _per invocation_, so basically each time the worker...

Shivek•10/10/25, 12:24 PM

1000 total invocations.

I'm running a workflow that has many steps.
I need to make 300-400 api calls.
But these calls need to be rate limited, so I added a global limiter Durable Object
Calls to the DO also get counted in the 1000 limit
And I start hitting the invocation limit exceeded
I feel I've hit the wall on what workers platform was designed to do

SShivek 1000 total invocations. - I'm running a workflow that has many steps. - I need...

vijayaraagavan•10/10/25, 2:23 PM

I’ve had the same experience. Because of the subrequest limit, I had to split my task across multiple workflow instances and then manually track all their statuses just to determine when the parent job was finished. A 1000 limit makes sense for Workers, but definitely not for Workflows. Hopefully they raise it soon.

Eumatio•10/10/25, 8:27 PM

I can no longer access the Workflow page on the Cloudflare dashboard, it disappeared about an hour ago. I’ve already tried clearing my cache and accessing it from a different computer, but the issue persists. The workflow instances are still being created and finalized normally. The issue persists when I am using other network connections

Peps•10/10/25, 8:38 PM

known issue with the dashboard, its being worked on right now

EEumatio I can no longer access the Workflow page on the Cloudflare dashboard, it disappe...

Hard@Work•10/10/25, 8:46 PM

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/7jv9tr6793pd

Some Dashboard Features are Unavailable

Olriko•10/14/25, 1:28 PM

Hello, I have an issue. When I run a workflow, the workflow is always queued..

Luktaros•10/14/25, 7:30 PM

Hi, does anyone know why I get this error even when my workflow completes succesfully?

[
{
message: 'run',
level: 'error',
$workers: {
event: { rpcMethod: 'run' },
scriptName: '----------',
outcome: 'exception',
eventType: 'rpc',
diagnosticsChannelEvents: [],
entrypoint: '---------,
scriptVersion: { id: '---------------------------- },
truncated: false,
executionModel: 'stateless',
wallTimeMs: 783,
cpuTimeMs: 10,
requestId: '------------------',
},
$metadata: {
id: '--------------------',
requestId: '-----------------',
trigger: 'default.run',
service: '--------------',
level: 'error',
error: 'run',
message: 'run',
account: '---------------------',
provider: 'cloudflare',
type: 'cf-worker-event',
fingerprint: '-----------------',
origin: 'rpc',
messageTemplate: 'run',
},
},
];

I can't catch any error to justify it

SSeekerdasbatatas This is an unfortunate side effect of how we guarantee durable execution, and we...

Luktaros•10/14/25, 7:33 PM

Oh, could this be the reason?

LLuktaros Oh, could this be the reason?

avenceslau•10/14/25, 7:52 PM

Yup we are working on it

await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => { return 'this is how I log, and it will show up as the result of this step' }) const myResult = await step.do() // this step returns something that we want to log await step.do("my-debug-step", async () => { if(myResult) { return `You can also log results ${JSON.stringify(myResult)}` } else { return `Result is not defined` } })

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