Send email alert on workflow failure

Workflow

Universal

Beginner

Use Template

This is a 'Workflow' template which means that it is a single standalone workflow.

Some workflow templates can be modified to work with other workflow templates - e.g. to convert a data sync between two services from uni-directional to bi-directional

Overview

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Workflows using the Alert Trigger are useful for error handling in your production workflows and solutions.

An enabled alerting workflow can be set as:

• The alerting workflow for individual workflow(s) in the same workspace (org or personal)

• The alerting workflow for all workflows in the organization workspace

• The alerting workflow for all workflows in a user's personal workspace

End Result

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This alerting workflow makes use of the Send Email connector to send a single alert message to a predefined email address.

The message will come through like this:

Information about the workflow that failed, along with a direct link to the error log itself, will be presented along with some other contextual information.

Prerequisites

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This workflow assumes the following:

• There is a personal or group e-mail address that is suitable for alerting messages from one or more of your production Tray workflows

• You have workflows in Tray that you wish to monitor with a workflow alert

Workflow Logic

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The following screenshot illustrates the workflow:

The workflow is triggered by errors occurring in workflows which have set this workflow as their alerting workflow.

There are only two other connectors - the Mustache connector and the Send Email connector.

Since HTML code is used to make a formatted e-mail, the Mustache connector is used to insert data from the trigger into a block of HTML.

That output is then used in the Send Email connector to present an actionable, readable message for the end users.

Getting Live

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To configure the workflow for your own use: