# How to detect a flow has not been triggered for a period of time **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** flow\ **Created:** [July 13, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331 "2020-07-13T06:10:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FKey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/fkey/32/14793_2.png) [@FKey](https://community.homey.app/u/FKey)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331/1 "2020-07-13T06:10:49Z")
I am looking for a way to detect a flow has not been triggered for a period of time. Did not see an option in “system” or “flow” Reason: 1. debugging: most flows should run dayly, if they dont something is wrong 2. cleaning up: flows that are never running could be useless but forgotten to remove ---
**Author:** ![Jos\_Stultjens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jos_stultjens/32/12687_2.png) [@Jos\_Stultjens](https://community.homey.app/u/Jos_Stultjens)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331/2 "2020-07-13T07:01:49Z")
Maybe you can create a “Better Logic” variable of type string for every flow you want to check. Whenever a flow is executed, you can set the corresponding variable with the date/time converted to a string. This way you can check these variables and see when the flow was executed last. But this probably is not the best option when you have a lot of flows to be checked. PaperTrails Log, an app created by @Dijker also might be an option. Please have a look at that too. See: [PaperTrails Log - Advanced Logging and Log management (v0.6.3)](https://community.homey.app/t/papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-log-management-v0-6-3/40) ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Willem\_Visser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_willem_visser/32/10747_2.png) [@Jan\_Willem\_Visser](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Willem_Visser)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331/3 "2020-07-13T07:49:30Z")
Use a timer. When the flow is triggert start a timer for the time u want. Every time the flow has triggert the timer whil start again. When the timer is emty the flow has not triggerd whithin the time u wanted. So you made a flow WHEN timer is emty THEN make a notification. ---
**Author:** ![FKey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/fkey/32/14793_2.png) [@FKey](https://community.homey.app/u/FKey)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331/4 "2020-07-13T16:22:02Z")
> [@Jos\_Stultjens](#): > > PaperTrails Log, an app created by @Dijker also might be an option. Please have a look at that too. > See: [PaperTrails Log - Advanced Logging and Log management (v0.6.3)](https://community.homey.app/t/papertrails-log-advanced-logging-and-log-management-v0-6-3/40) 👍 all my flows already have papertrail logging. Indeed a great app ---
**Author:** ![FKey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/fkey/32/14793_2.png) [@FKey](https://community.homey.app/u/FKey)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-detect-a-flow-has-not-been-triggered-for-a-period-of-time/32331/5 "2020-07-13T16:27:14Z")
Was hoping there was a simple solution like the system card “a device did not report” I have several flows that do their work unnoticed (like sending my betterlogic data every night to the “betergas” server. So If they fail it can go unnoticed for a long time…