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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a design specification for workflow observability metrics. It documents existing telemetry and storage gaps, then proposes SQLite metrics columns, aggregate APIs, in-memory and SQL implementations, engine integration, tests, and deferred external query surfaces. ChangesWorkflow observability metrics
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The design spec currently misstates the shipped metrics API and leaves historical aggregate completeness undefined, which could mislead maintainers about available metrics and historical results. Update the document before merging. Possibly related PRs
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In `@crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md`:
- Around line 46-61: Update the current-state and recommendation sections to
reflect the shipped StateStore::workflow_metrics and
SqliteStore::workflow_metrics implementations, including their SQL aggregation
behavior and existing metrics tests. Replace claims that aggregate methods,
metric columns, migrations, query wiring, and tests are future work with an
accurate historical baseline and shipped implementation status, and align the
documented query plan and test location with the implementation.
- Around line 111-114: Update the migration design to resolve historical metric
completeness: either backfill the new metric columns from existing rows’
state_json during migration, or explicitly document and test that aggregates
over historical data are partial because NULL columns are excluded or coerced to
zero.
- Around line 9-15: Update the metrics design sections around the overview, API
description, and capability summary to use Cloudflare’s workflowsAdaptiveGroups
dataset and accurately describe the current WorkflowMetrics contract: status
counts, average elapsed duration from duration_ms, token totals, and step
outcomes. Remove claims about CPU time, error rates, time buckets, duration
sums, or full Cloudflare parity unless the API is extended to provide them.
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| Two access paths over the same underlying data: the Cloudflare dashboard | ||
| (charts, per-Workflow and account-wide) and the GraphQL Analytics API | ||
| (`workflowsMetricsAdaptiveGroups`-style dataset, filtered/grouped by workflow | ||
| name, status, time bucket). Metrics exposed: **instance counts by status** | ||
| (queued/running/errored/terminated/complete/paused), **CPU time** and | ||
| **wall-clock duration** per instance, **step-level** duration/CPU/outcome, | ||
| and error rates. |
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Cloudflare Workflows observability metrics analytics workflowsAdaptiveGroups workflowName instanceId stepName wallTime
💡 Result:
Cloudflare Workflows provides observability through metrics and analytics that can be viewed in the Cloudflare dashboard or queried programmatically via the GraphQL Analytics API [1][2]. The primary dataset used for these analytics is workflowsAdaptiveGroups [1][2]. This dataset allows you to filter and group execution metrics using several dimensions [1][2]: - workflowName: The name of the specific workflow [1][2]. - instanceId: The unique identifier for a workflow instance [1][2]. - stepName: The name assigned to a step within the workflow [1][2]. - eventType: The type of event (e.g., execution start, completion, error) [1][2]. - stepCount: The step number within a given instance [1][2]. - Time-based dimensions: Includes date, datetimeFiveMinutes, datetimeHour, and datetimeMinute [1][2]. While wallTime is a common metric concept in distributed systems, the official documentation specifically highlights that these metrics allow you to measure execution, error rates, steps, and total duration [1][2]. Metrics are retained for 31 days and require an accountTag filter (your Cloudflare account ID) when queried via the GraphQL API [1][2]. For more granular debugging, you can also retrieve detailed execution logs and status for specific instances, including step-level output, through the Cloudflare API [3][4][5].
Citations:
- 1: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/observability/metrics-analytics/
- 2: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/blob/production/src/content/docs/workflows/observability/metrics-analytics.mdx
- 3: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/python/resources/workflows/subresources/instances/methods/step/
- 4: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/workflows/subresources/instances/
- 5: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/node/resources/workflows/subresources/instances/methods/get/
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grep -n -A80 -B5 'fn metrics_where\|CREATE TABLE.*step_state\|step_state (' \
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doc = Path("crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md").read_text()
types = Path("crates/flare-workflow/src/types.rs").read_text()
workflow = re.search(
r"pub struct WorkflowMetrics\s*\{(?P<body>.*?)\n\}",
types,
re.S,
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metrics_filter = re.search(
r"pub struct MetricsFilter\s*\{(?P<body>.*?)\n\}",
types,
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if not workflow or not metrics_filter:
raise SystemExit("required public metric types were not found")
fields = set(re.findall(r"pub\s+(\w+)\s*:", workflow.group("body")))
filters = set(re.findall(r"pub\s+(\w+)\s*:", metrics_filter.group("body")))
claims = {
"CPU metric": bool(re.search(r"\bCPU\b|\bcpu\b", doc)),
"error rates": "error rates" in doc,
"time buckets": "time bucket" in doc,
"duration sum": bool(re.search(r"\bavg\b/\b?sum\b|\bsum\b.*duration", doc)),
"time range": "optional time range" in doc,
}
print("WorkflowMetrics fields:", sorted(fields))
print("MetricsFilter fields:", sorted(filters))
print("documented claims:", claims)
print("CPU field present:", any("cpu" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("error-rate field present:", any("error" in f.lower() or "rate" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("time-bucket field present:", any("bucket" in f.lower() or "time" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("duration-sum field present:", any("sum" in f.lower() for f in fields))
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types = Path("crates/flare-workflow/src/types.rs").read_text()
workflow = re.search(r"pub struct WorkflowMetrics\s*\{(?P<body>.*?)\n\}", types, re.S)
metrics_filter = re.search(r"pub struct MetricsFilter\s*\{(?P<body>.*?)\n\}", types, re.S)
if not workflow or not metrics_filter:
raise SystemExit("required public metric types were not found")
fields = set(re.findall(r"pub\s+(\w+)\s*:", workflow.group("body")))
filters = set(re.findall(r"pub\s+(\w+)\s*:", metrics_filter.group("body")))
claims = {
"CPU metric": bool(re.search(r"\bCPU\b|\bcpu\b", doc)),
"error rates": "error rates" in doc,
"time buckets": "time bucket" in doc,
"duration sum": "avg`/`sum`" in doc or "avg/sum" in doc,
"time range": "optional time range" in doc,
}
print("WorkflowMetrics fields:", sorted(fields))
print("MetricsFilter fields:", sorted(filters))
print("documented claims:", claims)
print("CPU field present:", any("cpu" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("error-rate field present:", any("error" in f.lower() or "rate" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("time-bucket field present:", any("bucket" in f.lower() or "time" in f.lower() for f in fields))
print("duration-sum field present:", any("sum" in f.lower() for f in fields))
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Align the metrics design with the implemented contract.
Use Cloudflare’s workflowsAdaptiveGroups dataset name. The local WorkflowMetrics API exposes status counts, average duration, token totals, and step outcomes only. It does not expose CPU time, error rates, time buckets, or duration sums. duration_ms records elapsed duration, and token totals are not CPU metrics. Update lines 9–15, 35–38, and 78–84 to describe a library-level subset, or extend the API before claiming parity.
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In `@crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md` around lines 9 - 15,
Update the metrics design sections around the overview, API description, and
capability summary to use Cloudflare’s workflowsAdaptiveGroups dataset and
accurately describe the current WorkflowMetrics contract: status counts, average
elapsed duration from duration_ms, token totals, and step outcomes. Remove
claims about CPU time, error rates, time buckets, duration sums, or full
Cloudflare parity unless the API is extended to provide them.
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| - **No aggregate query capability exists on the store actually used in | ||
| production.** `count_by_status`/`count` (`store.rs:82-93`) are **inherent | ||
| methods on `InMemoryStore` only** — verified by reading `SqliteStore`'s | ||
| full `StateStore` impl in `sqlite_store.rs`: it has no such methods. The | ||
| `StateStore` trait itself declares no aggregate method. `list_all()`/ | ||
| `list_active()` return fully deserialized `WorkflowState` structs; today, | ||
| "count by status" against SQLite means loading and deserializing every | ||
| run's full `state_json` blob client-side, not a SQL `GROUP BY`. | ||
| - **Real schema gap for step-level metrics:** the SQLite `step_state` | ||
| projection table (`sqlite_store.rs` migrations) has columns `run_id, | ||
| step_id, status, attempt, last_error, started_at, completed_at` — it does | ||
| **not** have `duration_ms`, `input_tokens`, or `output_tokens` as columns, | ||
| even though those fields exist on the `StepState` struct and are written | ||
| into the `workflow_runs.state_json` blob. So step-level duration/token | ||
| aggregation can't be done in SQL today without a migration; it would | ||
| require deserializing every run's JSON. |
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Update the current-state and recommendation sections to match the shipped implementation.
The document says that StateStore has no aggregate method and that SQLite lacks the metric columns. The supplied code already contains StateStore::workflow_metrics in crates/flare-workflow/src/store.rs:22-67, SqliteStore::workflow_metrics in crates/flare-workflow/src/sqlite_store.rs:577-685, and aggregate tests in crates/flare-workflow/tests/metrics_test.rs:40-98.
Lines 73-99 also describe the migration, SQL queries, engine passthrough, and tests as future work. Rewrite this as a historical baseline plus shipped implementation, or mark it explicitly as a pre-implementation proposal. The documented query plan and test location must also match the implementation.
Also applies to: 73-99
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In `@crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md` around lines 46 - 61,
Update the current-state and recommendation sections to reflect the shipped
StateStore::workflow_metrics and SqliteStore::workflow_metrics implementations,
including their SQL aggregation behavior and existing metrics tests. Replace
claims that aggregate methods, metric columns, migrations, query wiring, and
tests are future work with an accurate historical baseline and shipped
implementation status, and align the documented query plan and test location
with the implementation.
| Total: roughly 170-210 LOC plus one migration, no new external | ||
| dependencies. No schema migration risk beyond the usual additive | ||
| `ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN` (existing rows get `NULL`, aggregates already | ||
| need to tolerate that via SQL `COALESCE`/Rust `Option`). |
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# Model the documented migration and the existing authoritative state_json
# representation without executing repository code.
old_state = {
"step_states": {
"s1": {
"status": "succeeded",
"attempt": 1,
"input_tokens": 10,
"output_tokens": 20,
"duration_ms": 100,
}
}
}
old_state_without_metrics = {
"step_states": {
"s1": {
"status": "succeeded",
"attempt": 1,
}
}
}
db = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
db.executescript("""
CREATE TABLE workflow_runs (
id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
state_json TEXT NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE step_state (
run_id TEXT NOT NULL,
step_id TEXT NOT NULL,
status TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (run_id, step_id)
);
INSERT INTO workflow_runs VALUES ('with-data', ?);
INSERT INTO workflow_runs VALUES ('without-data', ?);
INSERT INTO step_state VALUES ('with-data', 's1', 'succeeded');
INSERT INTO step_state VALUES ('without-data', 's1', 'succeeded');
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN duration_ms INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN input_tokens INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN output_tokens INTEGER;
""", (json.dumps(old_state), json.dumps(old_state_without_metrics)))
print("projected rows after additive migration:")
for row in db.execute("""
SELECT run_id, duration_ms, input_tokens, output_tokens
FROM step_state ORDER BY run_id
"""):
print(row)
print("aggregates after additive migration:")
print(db.execute("""
SELECT
COALESCE(SUM(input_tokens), 0),
COALESCE(SUM(output_tokens), 0),
AVG(duration_ms)
FROM step_state
""").fetchone())
print("authoritative state_json values:")
for row in db.execute("SELECT id, state_json FROM workflow_runs ORDER BY id"):
print(row[0], json.loads(row[1])["step_states"]["s1"])
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CREATE TABLE workflow_runs (
id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
state_json TEXT NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE step_state (
run_id TEXT NOT NULL,
step_id TEXT NOT NULL,
status TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (run_id, step_id)
);
""")
states = {
"with-data": {
"step_states": {
"s1": {
"status": "succeeded",
"attempt": 1,
"input_tokens": 10,
"output_tokens": 20,
"duration_ms": 100,
}
}
},
"without-data": {
"step_states": {
"s1": {"status": "succeeded", "attempt": 1}
}
},
}
for run_id, state in states.items():
db.execute(
"INSERT INTO workflow_runs VALUES (?, ?)",
(run_id, json.dumps(state)),
)
db.execute(
"INSERT INTO step_state VALUES (?, ?, ?)",
(run_id, "s1", "succeeded"),
)
db.executescript("""
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN duration_ms INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN input_tokens INTEGER;
ALTER TABLE step_state ADD COLUMN output_tokens INTEGER;
""")
print("projected rows after additive migration:")
for row in db.execute("""
SELECT run_id, duration_ms, input_tokens, output_tokens
FROM step_state ORDER BY run_id
"""):
print(row)
print("aggregates after additive migration:")
print(db.execute("""
SELECT
COALESCE(SUM(input_tokens), 0),
COALESCE(SUM(output_tokens), 0),
AVG(duration_ms)
FROM step_state
""").fetchone())
print("authoritative state_json values:")
for row in db.execute("SELECT id, state_json FROM workflow_runs ORDER BY id"):
print(row[0], json.loads(row[1])["step_states"]["s1"])
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Define historical metric completeness after migration.
The migration leaves new columns NULL for existing rows. COALESCE(SUM(...), 0) reports zero, and AVG(...) omits those rows, even when state_json contains metric values.
Add a backfill from state_json, or document and test that historical aggregates are partial.
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In `@crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md` around lines 111 -
114, Update the migration design to resolve historical metric completeness:
either backfill the new metric columns from existing rows’ state_json during
migration, or explicitly document and test that aggregates over historical data
are partial because NULL columns are excluded or coerced to zero.
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What
Lands the committed design spec for the instance/step metrics observability layer (
crates/flare-workflow/OBSERVABILITY_METRICS_DESIGN.md) into the tree where its implementation already lives.The
workflow_metricsquery layer itself shipped in #509 (merged): 5th migration addsduration_ms/input_tokens/output_tokenstostep_state,StateStore::workflow_metrics(MetricsFilter),SqliteStoreSQL aggregation,InMemoryStoremirror,WorkflowEngine::metricspassthrough, andtests/metrics_test.rs. That PR merged without its spec — the spec sat stranded ondocs/flare-workflow-observability-designwhile every sibling design doc (LOOP_DURABILITY_DESIGN.md,ROLLBACK_COMPENSATION_DESIGN.md,TYPED_PARAMS_DESIGN.md) lives in-tree.Why
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cargo test -p flare-workflow— full crate suite green (incl.tests/metrics_test.rs: 3 passed).cargo clippy -p flare-workflow --all-targets— clean.Doc-only change: 1 file, 128 insertions.
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