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 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 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

Flow Studio 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
Flow Studio for Teams app
(how to select flows).

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

> 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

> 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": "Default-<envGuid>.<flowGuid>",
    "displayName": "Stripe subscription updated",
    "state": "Started",
    "triggerType": "Request",
    "triggerUrl": "https://...",
    "tags": ["#operations", "#sensitive"],
    "environmentName": "Default-aaaaaaaa-...",
    "monitor": true,
    "runPeriodFailRate": 0.012,
    "runPeriodTotal": 82,
    "createdTime": "2025-06-24T01:20:53Z",
    "lastModifiedTime": "2025-06-24T03:51:03Z"
  }
]

> 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:

> 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).

{
  "flowKey": "Default-<envGuid>.<flowGuid>",
  "windowStart": null,
  "windowEnd": null,
  "totalRuns": 82,
  "successRuns": 81,
  "failRuns": 1,
  "successRate": 0.988,
  "failRate": 0.012,
  "averageDurationSeconds": 2.877,
  "maxDurationSeconds": 9.433,
  "firstFailRunRemediation": null,
  "firstFailRunUrl": null
}

> 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.

[
  {
    "id": "Default-aaaaaaaa-...",
    "displayName": "Flow Studio (default)",
    "sku": "Default",
    "type": "NotSpecified",
    "location": "australia",
    "isDefault": true,
    "isAdmin": true,
    "isManagedEnvironment": false,
    "createdTime": "2017-01-18T01:06:46Z"
  }
]

> sku values: Default, Production, Developer, Sandbox, Teams.

list_store_connections

Direct array. Can be very large (1500+ items).

[
  {
    "id": "<environmentId>.<connectionId>",
    "displayName": "[email protected]",
    "createdBy": "{\"id\":\"...\",\"displayName\":\"...\",\"email\":\"...\"}",
    "environmentName": "...",
    "statuses": "[{\"status\":\"Connected\"}]"
  }
]

> createdBy and statuses are JSON strings — parse with json.loads().

list_store_makers

Direct array.

[
  {
    "id": "09dbe02f-...",
    "displayName": "Sample Maker",
    "mail": "[email protected]",
    "deleted": false,
    "ownerFlowCount": 199,
    "ownerAppCount": 209,
    "userIsServicePrinciple": false
  }
]

> 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.

[
  {
    "id": "<environmentId>.<appId>",
    "displayName": "My App",
    "environmentName": "...",
    "ownerId": "09dbe02f-...",
    "ownerName": "Catherine Han",
    "appType": "Canvas",
    "sharedUsersCount": 0,
    "createdTime": "2023-08-18T01:06:22Z",
    "lastModifiedTime": "2023-08-18T01:06:22Z",
    "lastPublishTime": "2023-08-18T01:06:22Z"
  }
]

Common Workflows

Find unhealthy flows

1. list_store_flows
2. Filter where runPeriodFailRate > 0.1 and runPeriodTotal >= 5
3. Sort by runPeriodFailRate descending
4. For each: get_store_flow for full detail

Check a specific flow's health

1. get_store_flow → check scanned (freshness), runPeriodFailRate, runPeriodTotal
2. get_store_flow_summary → aggregated stats with optional time window
3. get_store_flow_runs(status=["Failed"]) → per-run failure detail with remediation hints
4. If deeper diagnosis needed → switch to live tools:
   get_live_flow_runs → get_live_flow_run_action_outputs

Enable monitoring on a flow

1. update_store_flow with monitor=true
2. Optionally set rule_notify_onfail=true, rule_notify_email="[email protected]"
3. Run data will appear after the next daily scan

Daily health check

1. list_store_flows
2. Flag flows with runPeriodFailRate > 0.2 and runPeriodTotal >= 3
3. Flag monitored flows with state="Stopped" (may indicate auto-suspension)
4. For critical failures → get_store_flow_runs(status=["Failed"]) for remediation hints

Maker audit

1. list_store_makers
2. Identify deleted accounts still owning flows (deleted=true, ownerFlowCount > 0)
3. get_store_maker for full detail on specific users

Inventory

1. list_store_environments → environment count, SKUs, locations
2. list_store_flows → flow count by state, trigger type, fail rate
3. list_store_power_apps → app count, owners, sharing
4. list_store_connections → connection count per environment

Related Skills

• power-automate-mcp — Foundation skill: connection setup, MCP helper, tool discovery
• power-automate-debug — Deep diagnosis with action-level inputs/outputs (live API)
• power-automate-build — Build and deploy flow definitions
• power-automate-governance — Governance metadata, tagging, notification rules, CoE patterns