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darkknight
Expert ⭐️
August 30, 2022
Discovery

Failure notifications on Real Time rules

Related products:CS Rules Engine
  • August 30, 2022
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Didn’t see this posted anywhere, but there seems to be no way to get notified if a Real Time Rule fails for any reason. It makes me extremely wary of using Real Time Rules if I have no way to get notified when something goes wrong.  In fact, no feature that relies on automation should GA unless there is a way to be notified when it fails for any reason.

 

34 replies

sarahmiracle
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May 9, 2023

Writing in to share my enthusiasm for this request as well. Failure notifications are necessary for RTR.

Customer Success Systems Admin @ Amplitude, 3x Gainsight CS Ops Product Council Member
darkknight
Expert ⭐️
August 13, 2023

Why is this still only “Under Consideration”? Failure notifications are mandatory for rules

Jeff Kirkpatrick
jparker
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August 22, 2023

To add to this, it would be good if someone could confirm what is keeping Realtime Rules moving from beta to GA and what the expected timescales are for this

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Expert ⭐️
August 22, 2023

To add to this, it would be good if someone could confirm what is keeping Realtime Rules moving from beta to GA and what the expected timescales are for this

And when we will have access to more objects, such as SPs and CTAs.

Expert ⭐️
August 22, 2023

Success lans, I think we have CTAs today.*

darkknight
Expert ⭐️
August 22, 2023

@Wayne we do have CTAs, but only limited actions. No “Custom Updates” which are sorely needed.

Success Plans needed too!

Jeff Kirkpatrick
jordan_cook
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August 22, 2023

Error logs could also be stored on a Gainsight table that we have access to. Much like email logs. I know some admins like to create CTAs for example when an email bounces. Why couldn’t we do the same for the RTR failure log? There there is also some flexibility. You could have it on an admin dashboard, or create a CTA rule that notifies the admin (not exactly immediately) when there was a failure with a given RTR.

Again, immediate notifications are ideal for most folks, but it would be also nice to have options for admins who don’t want instant emails.

johntrask_bt
Helper ⭐️
October 10, 2023

@rakesh - Any update on this? Having failure alerts should be mandatory. 

JohnTrask
hillarydj
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October 17, 2023

This would be super helpful to us… we use real-time rules to update fields in Salesforce.
But because there are other systems trying to update Salesforce at the same time, these rules often fail.
The only work around for this today is checking the rule execution logs daily… having automated failure notifications would be a huge time savings to admins.

bradley
Expert ⭐️
October 17, 2023

This would be super helpful to us… we use real-time rules to update fields in Salesforce.
But because there are other systems trying to update Salesforce at the same time, these rules often fail.
The only work around for this today is checking the rule execution logs daily… having automated failure notifications would be a huge time savings to admins.

if you don’t already, it might be worth doing a nightly rule run (or more often if you want) of “regular” rules with the same type of criteria so if any RTR failed, you can correct them regularly. This is what we do with our RTRs that write to SFDC.