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Aditya Mishra
Aditya Mishra

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When a silent failure hit you, what did it actually cost?

Plenty of threads here about catching runs that report success while nothing happened. I've read most of them. What I can't find anywhere is the number.

So: when it happened to you —

  1. How long between it happening and someone noticing?
  2. What did it cost — refund, lost client, hours of digging, something else?
  3. Did you end up building something for it, or decide it wasn't worth it?

Asking because someone in another thread said diagnosing this is billable work for a consultancy, so a tool that shortens diagnosis shortens the invoice. If that's true for most people here, that changes what's worth building.

Real numbers more useful than patterns. Even "it cost nothing, we caught it in an hour" is an answer.

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Pushpendra Agrawal •

A synced workflow stopped firing silently for four days once. No error, no alert, every run showed green since it technically completed, it just did nothing on the other end. We only caught it because someone noticed the numbers looked flat. Cost was about four days of stale data and a couple annoyed customers before we added a check that pings us if the output count is zero for two runs in a row.