Cancel running workflows

[sfmskywalker]

Discussed in https://github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core/discussions/3053

^{Originally posted by gor8808 May 22, 2022} I have this workflow

While(true) |(iterate)| Writeline()

When I cancel this workflow (after execution) using this endpoint -- ​/v1​/workflow-instances​/{id}​/cancel it still keeps executing(printing to console)

Can you specify what means canceling the instance and in which cases it cancels the instance? BTW I can't find any docs regarding canceling endpoint

See also: #3163

[johnwc]

We are running into this often, as we need to cancel running workflows. We are having to forcibly kill the pod instance in order to kill the workflow. Is there also a way to know what worker instance(host) the workflow is currently running on?

[payoff]

Will the same endpoint be used or do you plan to create a new one?

[johnwc]

@payoff not sure who you are asking that towards, nor what you are referring to. Why would there be a new cancel endpoint built into Elsa?

@sfmskywalker after using Elsa for some time. We're also finding that a workflow may say faulted in the dashboard, but if we view the node's log; an activity is still logging to console.