The community member is trying to understand two settings related to actor runs and notifications. They initially thought they could uncheck the "Report about all my actor runs" option to only get notifications about failed runs, but realized "Actor Issues" is something different. To get notified about failed actors, they would need to either set up monitoring on each actor manually or get notified about all runs, which is noisy. The community member suggests a checkbox to only get notified about failed actor runs.
In the comments, another community member suggests using Integrations/WebHook and the Send Email Actor to get notified about failed or timed-out actor runs, but notes that a more general option would be better. They also mention that even with alerts, an actor could fail after producing some items, so the alerts wouldn't be sufficient.
Another community member realizes they can create an email filter to archive successful runs, and suggests it would be easier if the status was in the email subject.
There is no explicitly marked answer in the comments.
There are these two (see attachment) settings which I realized I first didn't understand correctly. I thought I can uncheck report about all my actor runs, and get only failed actor runs by leaving the other checkbox checked. But it seems that "Actor Issues" is something completely different, probably related to the actor marketplace.
To get notified about failed actors, I either have to setup monitoring on all of them manually (e.g. alert every time there is 0 items in the dataset), or I have to check the top checkbox and get notified about all runs, even the successful ones (which is noisy if I have daily schedule).
So I suggest there could be a checkbox which notifies me only when the actors fail, while not sending anything when the actors are successful.
Hi This is currently possible through Integrations/WebHook and running for example the Send Email Actor in case your Actor's Run fails or Timeouts etc. But I understand, you suggest more general option that you would not need to setup for each of your Actors/Tasks individually.
I will inform the internal team about this, but I would not expect this would be done any soon.
I just realized an actor could fail e.g. after producing 10 items, so even setting up the alert wouldn't cut it.
Thanks for suggesting the integrations, I'll take a look. Basically I'm satisfied with what I get with the "Run finished" checkbox, only that it's noisy. Like if your CI notified you about successful runs and you had to open each such e-mail, say "hmm, nice" and archive it every day. Not so useful. It's interesting only if it's failing.
