[Cockpit] Display current process instance

Hello,
In camunda, are we obliged to refresh browser (F5) to get result refreshed ? is there any way to show in real time the progress of process cycle ?

Thanks,

Samir

Hey @slb,

cockpit does not have a live view of the processes. Generally this is not the goal of cockpit, as it is mostly used to monitor and analyse problems in the processes. That’s usually when it is stuck somewhere :wink:

Cockpit only shows what is persisted in the Database. The state of the process is only persisted in the database once we hit an async-continuation (e.g. at user tasks, external service tasks or manually set async cont.). If the process is in the middle of a synchronous sequence of tasks, this could not be displayed even with auto-refresh.

I hope this clears things up a bit

@martin.stamm the Cockpit, as you also say, it is about “monitoring” which typically is about live states. If there are tasks completed but the cockpit shows tokens on old tasks, then it’s useless to keep an eye on the dashboard.
Would be great if Camunda offers the possibility for auto-refresh when there are changes on DB (and if someone doesn’t want this functionality, could disable it).