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Important
This article covers topics related to legacy systems. Migrate your flows created with these solutions to Power Automate for desktop or delete them.
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This article provides steps to solve an unavailable gateway or machine issue.
Applies to:
Power Automate
Original KB number:
4555596
Symptoms
You are able to test your desktop flows locally, but they fail with a gateway error when trying to run it as part of a Flow.
Verifying issue
Go to the run summary page of the flow, and look at the error for the
desktop flows
step.
Unreachable gateway
,
The target gateway is not available
, and
Could not connect to UI flows running on your machine
are good candidates for this problem.
The next step is to determine which of the machine, the gateway, or the UI flow service is offline.
Head over to
https://flow.microsoft.com
.
Select the target environment.
Go to data/Connections in the left menu. If you already know which gateway is failing, go to data/Gateways and select the target gateway. Go directly to step 6.
Filter for
UI flows
to find UI flows connections, and select the connections used in the failing flows.
Select the gateway name on the details page:
