Monitor, inspect and design Workflow Core workflows from your browser.
An embeddable dashboard for ASP.NET Core, in the spirit of Elsa Studio.
- Live overview: lifecycle events as they happen, with totals for the last hour, day or week.
- Instances: newest first with totals; filter by status, definition and date, or open one by ID.
- Instance view: a flowchart with each step's state and the paths actually taken, plus a step timeline, workflow data, payloads and error stack traces.
- Control: start, suspend, resume and terminate workflows, and publish events.
- Activity history: kept in your database (any EF Core relational provider), surviving restarts.
- Designer: build and edit JSON/YAML workflows visually, then publish them as new versions.
- Every persistence provider: built only on Workflow Core's own abstractions.
- Sign-in with your identity provider: Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Keycloak, Google, Amazon Cognito or any OpenID Connect provider, with admin and viewer roles.
- Secure by default: local requests only until you configure sign-in, CSRF and clickjacking protection, optional read-only mode.
| Instance flowchart | Designer |
|---|---|
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builder.Services.AddWorkflow(); // your Workflow Core setup
builder.Services.AddWorkflowCoreDashboard();
var app = builder.Build();
app.MapWorkflowCoreDashboard("/workflows");Run the app and open /workflows from the same machine. For history that survives restarts, the designer, and access from other machines, see Getting started.
| Package | Adds |
|---|---|
WorkflowCore.Dashboard |
The UI, its API and live updates; activity kept in memory |
WorkflowCore.Dashboard.EntityFramework |
Activity history and instance index in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite or Oracle |
WorkflowCore.Dashboard.Designer |
The visual designer for JSON/YAML workflows |
WorkflowCore.Dashboard.OpenIdConnect |
Sign-in with Okta, Entra ID, Auth0, Keycloak, Google, Cognito or any OpenID Connect provider |
Packages are attached to each GitHub release. They run on .NET 8, 9 and 10.
git clone https://github.com/inferenceailab/WorkflowCore.Dashboard.git
cd WorkflowCore.Dashboard
dotnet run --project samples/WorkflowCore.Dashboard.SampleOpen http://localhost:5290/workflows. The sample runs C#, JSON and YAML workflows on SQLite and starts new ones every few seconds. Building needs the .NET 10 SDK and Node.js 22.22+ or 24.15+.
| Getting started | Install, configure, first run |
| Configuration | Every option of the dashboard, journal and designer |
| Security | Exposing the dashboard safely; threat model |
| Identity providers | Sign-in with Okta, Entra ID, Auth0, Keycloak, Google, Cognito and others |
| Activity journal | History, instance index, retention, several nodes |
| Workflow graph | How flowcharts are drawn and colored |
| Designer | Building, validating and publishing workflows |
| REST API | Endpoints behind the UI |
| Architecture | How the pieces fit together |
| Development | Building, testing and releasing |
| FAQ | Common questions and problems |
The same pages are published to the wiki.
Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md first, and follow the code of conduct.
Found a vulnerability? Please report it privately as described in SECURITY.md, not in an issue.
MIT. Workflow Core is a separate project by Daniel Gerlag, also under the MIT license.