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Monitoring execution of unattended flow in "live"

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Hello,

We've been experimenting with RPA and power automate for a few month now but are facing a few issues with unattended flow monitoring.

Indeed, for an unattended flow combining cloud and desktop actions, i could'nt find a way to monitor execution. A single run of one of our robots can last up to 20h and meaningwhile, the end user has no feedback as of where the robot is and what is the status of the content that has been treated.

We could make the robot send emails every X lines processed but live feedback would be much much better.

Is there a way to live monitor the execution of an unattended desktop flow?

And if there are no proper way to do this, is there a workaround using API calls during desktop flow and triggering a second cloud only flow to log the API calls with some kind of custom connector (which is annoying because it would mean 2 licences for one flow).

The keyword here is live feedback ( and running attended isn't an option).

Best regards.

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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I would set up a status checklist in Excel. So, after each main milestone, you put an Attach to Excel, Write to Excel the time stamp at which it completed that step, and Save to Excel. When setting this up, after each Save Excel, make sure you focus back to the window that you left off on, so you don’t break your bot.

This would allow any user to open the Excel file (read only, assuming the bot leaves it open) at any given time to read the last completed step and when it was completed.

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@PBrt Like it was suggested, you can have some JSON, TXT, Excel or similar file and log progress there. You could also send some info via e-mail, but this might not be that practical...it depends.
In December release, Power Automate Desktop should include Log functionality, so in Monitoring console, you should be able to read logs real time.

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Highboy 1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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I have made a simple solution

Make a cmd file with the following content
@qwinsta /server:SERVERNAME
@Anonymous:
@Set /P _SessionID=Enter sessionID :
@mstsc /shadow:%_SessionID% /v:SERVERNAME /noconsentprompt

On the server that runs the unattended "bot" you have to set the following in Group policy

This will enable you to get a live view of your "Unattended" process.

We use it all the time. 😊

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