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Updated 3 months ago

We have disabled the system which sent notifications about finished runs

I've got some scrapers failing, but I learned only because my production had no data. Why? Because I've relied on emails from Apify, and they didn't come. Why? Because you've disabled them without telling me πŸ˜€

C'mon. I'm fine about disabling email feature you want to revamp, but then please email me about the change, because I don't spend my life on the notifiactions tab to learn about the change from a little notification box πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

I don't consider the notifications perfect, but they are the only global way to get notified about the fact that actors failed to finish. Alternative is to setup alert, but then I have to manually click on all my ten actors to set it up (prone to errors), and, more importantly there is no way to setup alert for a failed actor. In the metric drop down, there is no exit status is 0 option or equlvalent, as far as I can see.

Hence, after your change, I'm left with no monitoring over my actors unless I immediately go and fix up some automated code checking the actors over your API, which kind of defeats the reasons why I recently migrated my scrapers to Apify - to get these things out of the box, as part of your platform.
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Hey Honzo! Yeah, we're super sorry about that! Our team is on it. This shouldn't have happened.
Thanks πŸ™‚ I decided I could fix up a script checking the scrapers over the API, and I could add some stats and integration with my Discord, but it would be better as a nice-to-have improvement rather than necessary monitoring measure without alternative.

And I'm sorry for pushing this Discord to its limits with my feedback while fitting my usage to the free plan πŸ˜…
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