Presentation for Automation Summit 2023 about Debugging and error handling in cloud flows.

2. Tomasz Poszytek
Specialist in enabling organizations to work
more effectively through optimizing their
business processes.
Experienced expert who works for over 10 years
with SharePoint and over 4 with Office 365 and
Power Platform.
Continuously learning to stay up-to-date with
latest changes. Loves sharing knowledge with
customers
and community members.
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3. Agenda
01 Debugging basics
02 Debugging approaches
03 Error handling basics
04 Error handling approach
05 Azure Application Insights

4. 01
Debugging
basics

10. 02
Debugging
approaches

11. Two sides of debugging
Reading the results
Trying to understand what went wrong and where…
Modifying the logic
To get insights about the particular action’s/ function’s details…

12. Understanding run results and outcomes
• Flow checker
Allows to instantly check
if there are any errors
preventing flow from running
• Run history
Check why flow failed
and where it failed
• Error details
Check details of action that failed
and the reason it failed
• Edit columns
To find easily specific instance,
extremely useful for child flows

13. Working
with flow’s
flow ;)
• Manual trigger
Replace existing trigger
with
manual, so you can
easier modify trigger
data
• Resubmit flow
So that you don’t need
to trigger
it with the same data
again
• Run after
Use to turn off larger
piece of logic in flow
• Terminate action
Insert it after the action
you want to check, so
the whole flow won’t
run
• Static results
Fake execution of a
problematic action so
flow can run
• Timeouts
Use timeouts to end
action after a specific
amount of time

14. 03 Error handling basics

17. 04 Error handling
approach

25. Run after

26. Scope

27. 05 Azure
Application Insights