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Logging in Power Automate Desktop

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Hi All,

I need to monitor the the executed actions/sub flows in the power automate desktop.
Is there any option available for logging mechanism in the power automate desktop.

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Only from the Power Automate portal:

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siyong_liu 10 on at

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In the old WinAutomation, there is a "Log message" action which allows you to do just that. I don't find this in Power Automate Desktop anymore, so I guess an alternative could be to use "Write text to file" action instead. Hope this helps!

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lisha 80 on at

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Hi @siyong_liu
How "Write text to file" action works for getting the log message in power automate desktop?

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Riyaz_riz11 3,844 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @lisha

We can't extract that value from cloud to write to file into PAD.

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lisha 80 on at

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@Ahammad_Riyaz
No, I am asking for extracting value from PAD only and write to file.

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Riyaz_riz11 3,844 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@lisha
In pad u have to go with add item into list avery every imp action,
last u can specify write text to file.

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tkuehara 667 on at

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Hi @Anonymous

As already pointed out by others here, there's no in-built logging system: you'll have to build one.

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tkuehara 667 on at

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Hi @lisha

I'd recommend you to write to file right after any important step you want to record: the problem with writing everything at end is that if any error breaks your bot, you'll end up with no log at all.

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siyong_liu 10 on at

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Hi @lisha

Using "Write text to file" is only a workaround solution for now. Based on the 2021 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Microsoft Power Platform, the Log message action will be made available in desktop flows, enabling users to log custom messages.

Hope this helps!

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Any sort of additional logging that we could suck out of PAD would be extremely helpful.

I'm finding it excruciatingly frustrating that there isn't even any detail when a simple action fails such as clicking on a UI element, it fails to provide any additional details... like what step of the flow it was on.. or even what the element it was trying to click on... I usually have to figure out where it left off at based on what's on the computer currently. Heaven help me when running unattended actually starts working.

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