Managing the workflow run

Now that you have learned how to create workflow files to trigger workflow runs, it is important to learn how you can manage them. Understanding how to view the workflow run logs, as well as rerun and cancel a workflow, will help you prepare to create test workflow runs, ensure they run as needed, and monitor them. This section will also guide you through debugging failed runs in case you need to quickly troubleshoot them and get back on track.

Visualizing a workflow run

Visual representations of script runs aren't always available on many platforms. GitHub, however, provides a real-time graph that allows you to monitor the progress of your workflow run.

To access the workflow visualization graph, click on the Actions tab within your repository:

Figure 3.7 – Workflow run visualization graph

This page shows all the workflows that have run within your repository. The preceding screenshot shows results that are...