# Activity # Activity Activity lists every run of the current workspace's workflows, newest first. Use it to answer "did last night's run work?", to find a failure, and to open a run and read its logs. Open it from **Activity** in the side navigation. A workflow card's **View Activity** opens it filtered to that workflow, and Home's **Runs today** tile and **All activity** link open it too. Every member of the workspace can see it. An administrator can turn Activity off for the whole install under **Admin › Settings › Features**. ![Today's numbers in the header, the filter row, and a table with succeeded, failed and running runs](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/webapp/assets/activity-page.png) ## Today's numbers The header counts today's runs in this workspace, whatever the filters below say: - **Runs:** every run created today. - **In Progress:** runs that are running or waiting. - **Successes** and **Failures.** - **Success rate:** successes and in-progress runs together, as a share of today's runs. ## Filter the list | Filter | What it narrows to | | --- | --- | | **Filter by Workflow** | One or more workflows | | **Filter by status** | One or more statuses, such as **Failed** or **Timed Out** | | **Filter by trigger** | Runs started by **Schedule**, **Manual** or **Webhook** | | **Start date** and **End date** | Runs created in that range. The default is the last 3 months, up to today. | The filters are kept in the page's address, so you can bookmark or share a filtered view. The trigger filter has no option for runs started by an event, GitHub, a parent workflow or a retry. To break those down, use [Insights](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/webapp/insights), which filters on every trigger. ## Read the table | Column | Shows | | --- | --- | | **Name** | The workflow's display name. Select the header to sort by it. | | **Trigger** | How the run started: Manual, Schedule, Webhook, Event, Github, Task (a parent workflow), Retry or Engine | | **Initiated By** | The person, or the token's name, that started a manual, webhook or event run. Runs started by a schedule, a parent workflow or a retry show `---`; the run page links to their origin instead. | | **Start Time** | When the run started. A run that hasn't started yet, such as one waiting for a dispatcher or for a concurrency slot, shows `---`. | | **Active time** | Time spent executing, once the run has finished. Waits for approvals, manual tasks and sleeps, and pauses, are left out. | | **Status** | The run's [status](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/fundamentals/runs#status-and-phase). When Flow recorded a reason, it shows under the status: `DeadlineExceeded` for a timeout, or `ConcurrencyLimit` for a run skipped over its workflow's concurrency limit. | Select a row to open the run page. Pages hold 10 runs by default, and up to 100. ## How long runs are kept Activity shows only the runs Flow still holds. Finished runs are deleted after the **Activity Retention (days)** setting, 365 days by default and never less than 60. See [Runs](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/fundamentals/runs#how-long-runs-are-kept). ## Example: find out why last night's report failed The "nightly-report" workflow runs on a schedule at 2:00 AM. In the morning: 1. Open **Activity**. 2. In **Filter by Workflow**, choose "nightly-report". In **Filter by status**, choose **Failed** and **Timed Out**. 3. Select the top row. 4. On the run page, find the task marked **Failed** in the task log and select **View Log**. The last lines of the log, and the task's status message under **View Details**, usually name the cause: a missing file, a refused credential, or the container's exit code. ## Next steps - [Runs](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/fundamentals/runs): what the run page shows, and how to pause, cancel or retry a run. - [Retry a run](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/guides/retry-a-run): re-run a failed run from the task that failed. - [Insights](https://www.useboomerang.io/docs/flow/main/webapp/insights): success rates and durations over time.