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Pause & Resume

You can pause a running workflow and resume failed or partially successful executions.

Pausing an Execution

To pause a running workflow:

  1. Open the execution detail page (or watch it in the builder)
  2. Click the Pause button
  3. The workflow pauses between node executions — the currently running node will finish, but no new nodes will start

The execution status changes to Paused.

INFO

Pausing is graceful — it doesn't interrupt a node mid-execution. The current node completes, and the workflow pauses before scheduling the next node.

Resuming an Execution

You can resume executions that are in one of these states:

  • Failed — one or more nodes failed
  • Partial success — some nodes succeeded, others failed

To resume:

  1. Open the execution detail page
  2. Click the Resume button
  3. The workflow picks up from where it left off

How Resume Works

The platform uses checkpoints to track progress at the node level:

  • Nodes that already completed successfully are not re-run
  • Failed nodes are retried from their last checkpoint
  • Pending nodes that haven't run yet will execute normally

This means you can fix the underlying issue (e.g., update a connection's credentials, fix a remote server) and then resume without re-processing data that was already handled.

WARNING

Only the most recent execution can be resumed. If a workflow has been run again since the failure, the older execution cannot be resumed.