Microsoft activates automatic alerts for failing Power Automate flows
Microsoft has rolled out automatic alerts for unreliable Power Automate flows at general availability. Predefined rules now activate by default for cloud flows with success rates below 90 percent and at least 150 runs each day, plus all desktop flows. These cover tenant-wide managed environments with no setup needed, notifying admins of performance issues. IT teams get daily checks on 24-hour data. Users can add custom alerts for other metrics, though predefined ones cannot be changed or turned off yet.
Power Automate flows often failed silently for months, with no warnings until manual checks or complaints surfaced. Automatic alerts now flag high-volume failures across the tenant, alerting IT before small issues snowball. This creates company-wide visibility on flow reliability, which means your automations face new scrutiny and a push for upfront sturdiness. Builders gain indirect pressure to design flows that last, as IT dashboards highlight the flaky ones.
Analysis
Microsoft's default alerts expose your fragile flows to IT without fixing why they break randomly, so quit hoping for magic and own reliability yourself. Open Power Automate today, sort flows by run history descending, and add a Teams notification action configured to run after any failure on your top one.
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