flowstudio-power-automate-monitoring
Pro+ subscription required. Tenant-wide Power Automate monitoring using the FlowStudio MCP cached store: failure rates, run-health trends, maker/app inventory, inactive owners, and compliance/health reports. Use only for aggregated tenant views. For one environment, one flow, run control, or root-ca
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Power Automate Monitoring with FlowStudio MCP
Monitor flow health, track failure rates, and inventory tenant assets through
the FlowStudio MCP cached store — fast reads, no PA API rate limits, and
enriched with governance metadata and remediation hints.
⚠️ Pro+ subscription required. This skill calls store tools that
only work for FlowStudio for Teams or MCP Pro+ subscribers.
If the user does not have Pro+ access: the first store tool call
will return a 403/404 error. When that happens:
1. STOP calling store tools
2. Tell the user this feature requires a Pro+ subscription
3. Link them to https://mcp.flowstudio.app/pricing
4. If their question can be answered with live tools (e.g. "list flows in
one environment"), offer to use the flowstudio power automate mcp skill instead
Discovery: load tool schemas via tool search rather than tools/list —
call with query: "select:list store flows,get store flow summary" for the
common monitoring tools, or load the full set with query: "skill:governance"
(the server's governance bundle covers most monitoring reads too — this skill
and flowstudio power automate governance share the underlying tool family). This skill
covers response shapes, behavioral notes, and workflow patterns — things
tool search cannot tell you. If this document disagrees with a real API
response, the API wins.
How Monitoring Works
FlowStudio scans the Power Automate API daily for each subscriber and caches
the results. There are two levels:
All flows get metadata scanned: definition, connections, owners, trigger
type, and aggregate run statistics ( runPeriodTotal , runPeriodFailRate ,
etc.). Environments, apps, connections, and makers are also scanned.
Monitored flows ( monitor: true ) additionally get per run detail:
individual run records with status, duration, failed action names, and
remediation hints. This is what populates get store flow runs and
get store flow summary .
Data freshness: Check the scanned field on get store flow to see when
a flow was last scanned. If stale, the scanning pipeline may not be running.
Enabling monitoring: Set monitor: true via update store flow or the
FlowStudio for Teams app
([how to select flows](https://learn.flowstudio.app/teams monitoring)).
Designating critical flows: Use update store flow with critical=true
on business critical flows. This enables the governance skill's notification
rule management to auto configure failure alerts on critical flows.
Tools
Tool Purpose
list store flows List flows with failure rates and monitoring filters
get store flow Full cached record: run stats, owners, tier, connections, definition ( triggerUrl field included)
get store flow summary Aggregated run stats: success/fail rate, avg/max duration
get store flow runs Per run history with duration, status, failed actions, remediation (filter status="Failed" for errors only view)
update store flow Set monitor flag, notification rules, tags, governance metadata
list store environments All Power Platform environments
list store connections All connections
list store makers All makers (citizen developers)
get store maker Maker detail: flow/app counts, licenses, account status
list store power apps All Power Apps canvas apps
For start/stop, use set live flow state from the monitor flow bundle
( tool search query: "select:set live flow state" ) — the cache resyncs on
the next scan. The previous set store flow state convenience wrapper is
deprecated.
Store vs Live
Question Use Store Use Live
How many flows are failing? list store flows —
What's the fail rate over 30 days? get store flow summary —
Show error history for a flow get store flow runs (filter status="Failed" ) —
Who built this flow? get store flow → parse owners —
Read the full flow definition get store flow has it (JSON string) get live flow (structured)
Inspect action inputs/outputs from a run — get live flow run action outputs
Resubmit a failed run — resubmit live flow run
Store tools answer "what happened?" and "how healthy is it?"
Live tools answer "what exactly went wrong?" and "fix it now."
If get store flow runs or get store flow summary return empty results,
check: (1) is monitor: true on the flow? and (2) is the scanned field
recent? Use get store flow to verify both.
Response Shapes
list store flows
Direct array. Filters: monitor (bool), rule notify onfail (bool),
rule notify onmissingdays (bool).
id format: Default <envGuid .<flowGuid . Split on first . to get
environmentName and flowName .
triggerUrl and tags are optional. Some entries are sparse (just id +
monitor ) — skip entries without displayName .
Tags on list store flows are auto extracted from the flow's description
field (maker hashtags like operations ). Tags written via
update store flow(tags=...) are stored separately and only visible on
get store flow — they do NOT appear in the list response.
get store flow
Full cached record. Key fields:
Category Fields
Identity name , displayName , environmentName , state , triggerType , triggerKind , tier , sharingType
Run stats runPeriodTotal , runPeriodFails , runPeriodSuccess , runPeriodFailRate , runPeriodSuccessRate , runPeriodDurationAverage / Max / Min (milliseconds), runTotal , runFails , runFirst , runLast , runToday
Governance monitor (bool), rule notify onfail (bool), rule notify onmissingdays (number), rule notify email (string), log notify onfail (ISO), description , tags
Freshness scanned (ISO), nextScan (ISO)
Lifecycle deleted (bool), deletedTime (ISO)
JSON strings actions , connections , owners , complexity , definition , createdBy , security , triggers , referencedResources , runError — all require json.loads() to parse
Duration fields ( runPeriodDurationAverage , Max , Min ) are in
milliseconds . Divide by 1000 for seconds.
runError contains the last run error as a JSON string. Parse it:
json.loads(record["runError"]) — returns {} when no error.
get store flow summary
Aggregated stats over a time window (default: last 7 days).
Returns all zeros when no run data exists for this flow in the window.
Use startTime and endTime (ISO 8601) parameters to change the window.
get store flow runs
Direct array of cached run records. Parameters: startTime , endTime ,
status (array — pass ["Failed"] for an errors only view, ["Succeeded"] ,
or omit for all).
Returns [] when no run data exists in the window.
Trigger URL
Read the triggerUrl field directly from get store flow (cached) or
get live flow (live). It is null for non HTTP triggers.
Starting / stopping a flow
Use set live flow state from the monitor flow server bundle. The cache
catches up on the next daily scan; if you need cache freshness sooner, call
get live flow after the state change to confirm and let the next scan sync.
update store flow
Updates governance metadata. Only provided fields are updated (merge).
Returns the full updated record (same shape as get store flow ).
Settable fields: monitor (bool), rule notify onfail (bool),
rule notify onmissingdays (number, 0=disabled),
rule notify email (comma separated), description , tags ,
businessImpact , businessJustification , businessValue ,
ownerTeam , ownerBusinessUnit , supportGroup , supportEmail ,
critical (bool), tier , security .
list store environments
Direct array.
sku values: Default , Production , Developer , Sandbox , Teams .
list store connections
Direct array. Can be very large (1500+ items).
createdBy and statuses are JSON strings — parse with json.loads() .
list store makers
Direct array.
Deleted makers have deleted: true and no displayName / mail fields.
get store maker
Full maker record. Key fields: displayName , mail , userPrincipalName ,
ownerFlowCount , ownerAppCount , accountEnabled , deleted , country ,
firstFlow , firstFlowCreatedTime , lastFlowCreatedTime ,
firstPowerApp , lastPowerAppCreatedTime ,
licenses (JSON string of M365 SKUs).
list store power apps
Direct array.
Common Workflows
Find unhealthy flows
Check a specific flow's health
Enable monitoring on a flow
Daily health check
Maker audit
Inventory
Related Skills
flowstudio power automate mcp — Foundation skill: connection setup, MCP helper, tool discovery
flowstudio power automate debug — Deep diagnosis with action level inputs/outputs (live API)
flowstudio power automate build — Build and deploy flow definitions
flowstudio power automate governance — Governance metadata, tagging, notification rules, CoE patterns