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How to check if a Power Automate flow ran

Open the flow in the Microsoft Power Automate portal and read its run history — by default the last 28 days of runs, with status, start time, and duration. The Activity view gathers recent runs across your flows into one feed. And if you would rather have the question answered every day without asking it, FlowOversee's Daily Monitor marks each chosen flow off against its schedule automatically.

Check one flow's run history

When you want to know whether a specific flow ran, its own run history is the source of truth:

  1. Open the flow's run history in the Power Automate portal. Every cloud flow keeps one — by default the last 28 days, though admins can adjust how long run records are retained — each run with its status, start time, and duration.
  2. Open an individual run to see exactly what each step did — the fastest route from "did it run" to "what happened."
  3. Use the Activity view for the wider net: recent run activity across your flows in one feed, which the Power Automate mobile app can mirror as push notifications.

What FlowOversee adds: the question answered daily, for every flow that matters

"Did it run?" is rarely about one flow once — it is the same handful of scheduled jobs, every morning. FlowOversee's Daily Monitor turns that routine into a checklist that fills itself in: pick the flows that matter, and each day the app marks every one off against its actual run history. A flow that ran shows a check with the run's time and status; a flow with no matching run is flagged as a miss — the quiet failure mode that is otherwise easy to overlook.

FlowOversee — Daily Monitor
FlowOversee Daily Monitor showing a per-day checklist of Power Automate flows, each marked against its actual run history

The Daily Monitor: every chosen flow checked off against its real run history, day by day.

Templates make it fit real schedules: a weekday list, a month-end list, a critical-only list — each with its own flows, grace rules for jobs that start a little off-schedule, and per-flow time-zone overrides. For the visual version of the same question, the Timeline draws the day's runs as bars on a 24-hour strip: Today shows what has run so far, and Replay shows any past date.

Read more on the Daily Monitor feature page, or try both in the interactive demo — no install, no sign-in.

Common questions

Did-it-run, answered

How far back does Power Automate run history go?
By default, a cloud flow's run history in the Power Automate portal covers the last 28 days of runs — Power Platform admins can adjust how long run records are retained. FlowOversee reads the same run records the platform keeps, and its Daily Monitor stores each day's checklist results for up to 28 days as well.
Can I see yesterday's runs at a glance?
FlowOversee's Timeline has a Replay mode: pick any date and the day's runs draw as colored bars on a 24-hour strip — succeeded, failed, cancelled — so "what happened last night" is one glance instead of a list to scroll.
What about a flow that should have run but did not?
That is exactly what FlowOversee's Daily Monitor is for. You pick the flows that matter, and each day it marks every one off against its actual run history — a flow with no matching run gets flagged as a miss instead of silently showing nothing. There is a whole guide on catching flows that did not run.
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