Proactive monitoring
Detecting and alerting on automation issues before they impact operations, rather than reacting after clients notice. PURIST's monitoring stack alerts the team within 5 minutes of any workflow failure often before the client is aware.
Expert insight
Proactive monitoring (checking a system's health before a failure occurs, via trend analysis or threshold alerts) catches degradation while it's still gradual, a workflow's execution time creeping up over weeks, before it becomes a hard failure. Reactive monitoring (alerting only after something breaks) misses this early-warning window entirely.
In a real workflow
A workflow that usually runs 200 times a day alerts when it has run only 20 times by noon.
Common mistakes
- Waiting for customers to report problems.
- Alerts without a clear action.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
Related terms
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