Power Automate Analytics Errors Reporting

[mrscherry2000]

Has anyone figure out a way to get immediate error reports or emails if a flow errors out?  I'd even be happy with a daily versus weekly report.  I'm baffled that I can go to Analytics and see exactly what I need in what appears to be a PowerBi report but can't find a way to connect to this data in PowerBi directly.  The data is available.  

I don't want to add a configure run after email after every step in 50 flows some of which have 50 steps.  

[trice602 · Accepted solution]

Hi @mrscherry2000 ,

Yeah the analytics reporting is more of a 30,000 ft view and not designed for real-time failure reporting; although it is very helpful to monitor overall environment performance.

That said, you don't need to have a run-after after every step in every flow.  Put your entire flow after the trigger in a scope action and configure one run-after for the entire flow.  You set this up as an email, a notification, or a flowbot message in Teams - but you can get real-time failure updates and works like magic.

[trice602]

Hi @mrscherry2000 ,

One other comment that may be helpful:  often times I capture the error in the data, skip it, and keep processing, send the errors to owner of the data for manual processing so even though I am notified of the error, it may be just handing off the data to the owner to take over.

Example:  you are updating Purchase Orders for a team with automation and there's an error with an individual excel row, list item, or even Dataverse row.  Simply code for it to skip it, capture the error, append errors into a variable, and then mark your flow as successful (on run-after after), then send the error data to the owner to process the rows manually.

[mrscherry2000]

Thanks, I'm going to try this.