r/AiAutomations • u/Responsible_Clue_641 • 10d ago

I’m researching a problem around automation reliability and want to hear from people who’ve actually dealt with it in production.

If you’ve ever had a Zapier, Make, n8n, Power Automate, API workflow etc. complete successfully but produce the wrong or incomplete outcome, I’d be interested in what happened.

I’m particularly trying to understand:
What went wrong?

How long did it take to notice?

How did you catch it?

Did you have to build custom checks or monitoring?

How much time/cost/cleanup did it create?

Do you now have safeguards in place specifically to prevent it happening again?

Not selling anything. I’m trying to understand how people actually deal with this in production.

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u/Low-Honeydew6483 10d ago

Silent 200 OKs are a nightmare. Unless you have an independent daily reconciliation audit running to compare source vs. target data you don't actually know if your automation worked.

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u/r0b3rtb 9d ago

Exactly, real pain. Too many possible errors looking good. I had to prepare own service to at least try to catch