Find flow from http url or from a child flow

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Hi,

Often we have trouble finding a flow. One developer asks me which flow this belongs to and gives me the http url.

https://prod-201.westeurope.logic.azure.com/workflows/b43a78ab99d77211a4da4f80d4dae83a/triggers/manual/paths/invoke?api-version=2016-06-01&sp=%2Ftriggers%2Fmanual%2Frun&sv=1.0&sig=oTCNVQihJnsR926A6LKKLBTg5T-En6L_7x1IYsRpblg

Or when someone looks at a child flow and wonders which parent flow triggers it.

I would like to figure these things out. :)

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David_MA 12,966 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You probably don't want to be posting your real workflow URLs online in a public place. For the first part of your question, I am not sure how to find the flow from the URL you provided.

But for your question regarding what parent flow triggers a child flow, go to the child flow in your environment and click the three dots to the right of its name:

From the menu that opens, choose Advanced > Show dependencies. It will show you a menu of all of the workflows that call the child flow.

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Gyllentid 894 on at

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@David_MA thanks, the numbers and letters are changed so it's not the real url. Close enough to look real though.

Thanks I will look. That looks great, thank you :)

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rzaneti 4,241 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi sroo,

If you are working with child flows, they are necessarily organized into a Solution, and its runs will be stored into Flow Run table:

For the parent flows that run the children ones, you can find the parent's flow run ID in the Flow Run table:

Then you can search for this flow run in the Name column from the same table and find the flow name in the Workflow lookup column:

If your HTTP triggered flows are also part of a Solution, I would recommend you to simply make a request to the URL and check the newly created record in this table.

If your HTTP triggered flows are not organized in Solutions, you can maybe identify them by using the PowerShell for Power Platform. I was thinking about something that could list all flow runs from an environment, so you make the request to the URL, run the PowerShell script and get the most recent flow runs, specifying the respective flow.

I didn't tested from my end, but the code from this question may be helpful to achieve it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/883300/retrieve-the-executions-of-the-flow-power-automate

Let me know if it works for you or if you need any additional help!

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