How to cancel a flow run?

[anna_geller]

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@Aditi_Tambi: Hi I am new to this , I am using python, after initialising a prefect flow , we use flow.run() to start the flow . I would like to know any command which can terminate this flow . Did not find any such thing on prefect doc.

@Anna_Geller: Can you try just control + C?

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@Aditi_Tambi: oh no , actually I have deployed the flow code to our server. so was thinking to make some API to terminate the flow if not required

@Anna_Geller: if you start the flow with flow.run() then it doesn’t run on Server, it runs locally as a local process running on that machine.

An alternative way to kill it would be to list the processes, find it and then kill it:

ps -ef | grep python
kill -s SIGTERM PID

But if you registered the flow and started it through the backend, then you can cancel it directly from the UI as shown below:

Cancel local flow run: