Workflow authoring techniques
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Techniques that apply across workflow types, regardless of which outcome you're automating. Use this section when you're building or maintaining a workflow and need guidance on the mechanics.
- Author with natural language: Create and edit workflows by describing what you want in plain language.
- Use the YAML editor: Author and run workflows in the YAML editor in Kibana.
- Anatomy of a workflow: Every top-level field in a workflow definition and the execution lifecycle.
- Workflow settings: Workflow-wide settings reference, including timeout, timezone, concurrency, max step size, and global on-failure.
- Choose the right step: Decision aid for picking the right step type. Keyed by intent.
- Pass data and handle errors: Move data between steps, use dynamic templating, and make workflows resilient with
on-failure. - Compose workflows from reusable parts: Decompose long workflows into reusable child workflows, design the input and output contract, and fan out with asynchronous composition.
- Human-in-the-loop: Pause a workflow for reviewer input and resume on their decision.
- Monitor workflow execution: Track runs, review execution history, and troubleshoot failures.
- Manage and organize workflows: Find, edit, duplicate, enable, and disable workflows from the Workflows page.
- Troubleshoot workflows: Resolve common issues with triggers, flow control, cases, alerts, Liquid, AI steps, composition, human-in-the-loop, and concurrency.
- Migrate workflows from 9.3 to 9.4: Side-by-side replacements for the deprecated Case aliases, HTTP step
timeoutrelocation, and scheduled-trigger minimum interval.