conventional-blackC

We have disabled the system which sent notifications about finished runs

I've got some scrapers failing, but I learned only because my production had no data. Why? Because I've relied on emails from Apify, and they didn't come. Why? Because you've disabled them without telling me 😀 :thisisfinefire:

C'mon. I'm fine about disabling email feature you want to revamp, but then please email me about the change, because I don't spend my life on the notifiactions tab to learn about the change from a little notification box 🤦‍♂️

I don't consider the notifications perfect, but they are the only global way to get notified about the fact that actors failed to finish. Alternative is to setup alert, but then I have to manually click on all my ten actors to set it up (prone to errors), and, more importantly there is no way to setup alert for a failed actor. In the metric drop down, there is no exit status is 0 option or equlvalent, as far as I can see.

Hence, after your change, I'm left with no monitoring over my actors unless I immediately go and fix up some automated code checking the actors over your API, which kind of defeats the reasons why I recently migrated my scrapers to Apify - to get these things out of the box, as part of your platform.
Screenshot_2024-01-31_at_10.09.22.png
Was this page helpful?