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How to monitor desktop flows in Power Automate

The Microsoft Power Automate portal has a dedicated Monitor section for desktop flows — every run with its status, duration, and the machine it ran on, plus activity dashboards for trends. FlowOversee adds a Windows-native view where desktop flows sit right beside your cloud flows: one dashboard, one daily checklist, one set of alerts covering both.

Monitor desktop flows in the portal

  1. The Monitor area of the Power Automate portal covers the RPA side: desktop flow runs listed with their status, duration, and the machine each ran on.
  2. Desktop flow activity adds dashboards and charts on top: run outcomes over time, so trends and problem spots stand out.
  3. On the machine itself, Power Automate for desktop can show a live monitoring window with the state of every locally running flow.

Together those cover the RPA side thoroughly — run-level detail in the portal, live state on the machine.

What FlowOversee adds: cloud and desktop, side by side

Most environments are not desktop-only — the desktop automations run alongside scheduled cloud flows, and the question each morning covers both. FlowOversee opens to one dashboard for the whole environment: every flow, cloud and desktop, sorted and counted by status with live counts for running, failed, stopped, suspended, and more. Desktop flows are not a separate page to remember — they are right in the list, badged by kind.

FlowOversee — Dashboard
FlowOversee dashboard showing Power Automate cloud and desktop flows together, sorted and counted by status

Cloud and desktop flows in one dashboard — every status counted, the full list loaded up front.

Everything else follows the same both-kinds rule. The Daily Monitor checklist verifies desktop flows ran just like scheduled cloud flows. The Timeline draws desktop runs on the same 24-hour strip. And when a check finds a failed desktop run, the optional background alerts raise the same Windows toast they would for a cloud flow — the app is read-only throughout, signing in with your own account and reading the same run records the platform keeps.

See it live in the interactive demo — the sample environment mixes cloud and desktop flows, with a toggle to filter by kind.

Common questions

Desktop flow monitoring, answered

Where do I see desktop flow runs in the Power Automate portal?
In the portal's Monitor section: Desktop flow runs lists each run with its status, duration, and the machine it ran on, and Desktop flow activity adds dashboards and charts for spotting trends across your desktop automations.
Does FlowOversee need an agent on the machines that run desktop flows?
No. FlowOversee signs in with your own account and reads the same run records the platform already keeps — read-only, from your own PC. Nothing is installed on the machines running the automations and nothing about them changes.
Can the Daily Monitor verify desktop flows ran?
Yes. The Daily Monitor checklist takes scheduled cloud flows, triggered flows, and desktop flows alike — each chosen flow is marked off against its actual run history every day, whichever kind it is.
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