Running and Monitoring a Workflow

Overview

When you submit a workflow, Workbench coordinates with your specified workflow engine to execute and track your analysis. The engine interprets your workflow, generating commands for individual tasks that are then dispatched to your cloud or on-premises backend. Throughout this process, the engine orchestrates computational resources, executes the work, and writes outputs to storage.

Submitting a Workflow

This procedure assumes you have already selected a workflow to run and configured its inputs, and that you are currently looking at the completed workflow inputs configuration page.

After configuring your workflow inputs, follow these steps to submit your run:

1. Click "Submit Run" to open the Run Preview dialog, which summarizes key information including name, version, and parallel run count

2. Select your workflow engine from the connected options. If none is listed, follow the instructions in Connecting to a Workflow Engine.

3. Optionally add tags to help organize your runs

   • Use the format key: value

   • Separate multiple tags with commas or press return

   • Tags can be used later for filtering and identification

4. Click "Submit" to launch your workflow

Monitoring Your Runs

Workbench provides comprehensive monitoring of your workflows. During execution, you can:

• View overall run status and progress

• Track individual task completion

• Access logs as they're generated

• Review workflow details through Overview, Inputs, and Outputs tabs

To find your runs later, use the Monitor page, which displays both active and completed workflows. This page allows you to filter runs by workflow name, creation date, completion status, and tags. Click any run in the list to view its detailed monitoring page.

Managing Workflow Runs

Workbench provides several tools for managing your workflow runs, whether they're in progress or completed.

Resubmitting Workflows

You can rerun workflows in two ways:

• From the Monitor page using the "Actions" menu

• From the run monitoring details page via the "Rerun" button

When resubmitting, you'll go through the standard submission process where you can:

• Keep your original configuration

• Update your settings or parameters

• Select a different workflow engine

• Add new tags

Aborting Runs

For workflows in progress, you have several abort options:

• Abort a single run through the "Actions" menu in the runs table

• Abort multiple runs by:

  1. Selecting runs using the checkboxes in the table

  2. Clicking the three-dot menu at the top right

  3. Choosing "Abort Runs"

Managing Run History

To maintain your workflow history:

• Delete individual runs:

  • Use the "Delete Run" option in the "Actions" menu

  • Click the trash can icon on the run's monitoring details page

• Delete multiple runs:

  1. Select runs using the table checkboxes

  2. Open the three-dot menu

  3. Choose "Delete Runs"

Monitoring and Navigation

If you navigate away during execution, you can return to your run:

• Click "Monitor" in the main menu to see all runs

• Use filters to find specific runs:

  • Search by workflow name

  • Filter by creation date

  • Filter by completion status

  • Filter by custom tags

• Click any run in the table to view its detailed monitoring page

Deleting runs only removes them from the monitoring table - all output files remain intact in your storage location.