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I have a cloud flow that has thousands of flow runs stuck in the "running" status. I would like to cancel them all. I've been trying to use PowerShell and the "m365 flow run list" command to get all running flows, loop thru them and cancel each. The problem is "m365 flow run list" only returns 50 records. If there's a way to get that command to return more records, or better, to filter the records to only status of "running", then I could work my way through it.

I also read that if I copy the flow and delete the original, it will also delete all the runs. But this flow is part of a managed solution, so I can't delete it. And I can't uninstall the entire solution as that would mess up a bunch of other flows.

Anyone have a suggestion for how I can cancel the "running" flow runs?

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ArchitectMadhan 1,584 on at

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Hi @tschopp ,

Hope you would have not tried the Javascript and Flow to remove the running flow instances. Please refer the below link for further steps https://fredrikengseth.com/how-to-cancel-running-power-automate-flows-with-javascript/

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tschopp 311 on at

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I tried that idea and it didn't seem to do anything.

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Hi @tschopp ,

Please take a look at these good blogs.

Cancel all your running Power Automate flow runs using M365 CLI and REST API – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

Everything to know about Power Automate REST API to manage and administer your flows – Mohamed Ashiq Faleel

Best Regards,

Wearsky

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garce 26 on at

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I had the same issue, some 4k running flows
m365cli didn't work because I don't have permissions to install it
javascript didn't work and resulted in CORS error everytime
I ended up using another flow to delete the running flows. The process
Obtain runid of flows you want to cancel
Save those runid on a csv file
Create a "Deleter" flow
parse through the csv file
Use power automate management connector and cancel flow running
The complicated part was obtaining the runid of the runs you want to stop.
One good thing is that they are part of the url of the page.
1. Go to the running flow screen, filter by running
2. Click more at the bottom. Tedious. Do this many times until you get to the bottom (or you made a lot of progress - maybe 30 times each)
3. Save the page as html
4. Open the page in word, you need to use some clever search and replace to delete everything except the runid
5. Save as text
6. Open in excel and save as csv
Note that there is a "download" option to download a csv with the runids but only works for 100 records.
It took around 2.5hours to delete all 3-4k running flows
Hope this helps somebody

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