Save history of each node in the workflow

Question

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how we can keep the history of run in each node? right now I can only keep the final result of the workflow when I output it at the end, but I need to see how the data is transformed in each node as well.

I have very limited time each day to investigate what happened inside the complex workflow, and when I run the workflow the next day the result in each node will be overwritten.

Thank you!

TFish · Answer

Do we have any documentation on how to read the tmp files? and more importantly, can it be that the temporary files hold the data that I need, especially when all of my temporary files are less than 2MB?

abe_ibanez · Answer

I see.

I don't know of an official way of storing that information, but I would recommend reviewing the temp files generated by Alteryx after the workflow runs:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Engine_123_abc123 as an example.

The files are pretty hard to read, but they are structured, so there may be a way to clean them out to make them easier to read. You may want to copy those temp files into a permanent location after you run your workflow and then work on a way of parsing them back out.

TFish · Answer

that would not be feasible unfortunately. My workflow has over 1000+ nodes, and there are more than 5k+ excel lines added daily. Outputting after each node would be too time-consuming for my large workflow