Allow listing and filtering workflows based on current failures.

[drewhoskins-temporal]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When performing a batch operation such as a reset or pause, I'd like to be able to query for workflows that are failing and in which their failure fits a certain failure pattern, for example they might have a non-determinism error or have a certain stuck activity.

Describe the solution you'd like

Perhaps you could write a search attribute when certain conditions are met, such as > N retries of an activity or task failure, or when the workflow has been stuck for a certain amount of time.
You could write some key information (e.g. of the activity type that's failing and the class of the error) or a hash of that information, to allow people to narrow their queries.

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[cretz]

Visibility into workflows that have task failures or are otherwise stuck is a good/common request, but I think it's a server issue (at least at first). At the least you may want an issue at https://github.com/temporalio/temporal and link to it from here if it does not already exist.