Automation & Workflows

Silent Failure

A silent failure occurs when intended work fails or becomes incorrect without a useful failure signal reaching the person or system that needs to respond. The process may remain running and even report success. Detecting it requires checking meaningful outcomes, not just whether a request returned or an exception was thrown.

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