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A Guide to Error Handling in Power Automate Flow

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My strategy for error handling within Power Automate Cloud Flows is to actively informing administrators and support staff as soon as something has gone wrong. Click here to read the full article.

An email warning of an error with a link to opens the Flow instance.

I would very much like to hear what other people's strategies are.

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takolota1 4,974 Moderator on at

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I create 2 branches at the end of each flow.
One branch just has a compose action with a placeholder value like 0.
The other branch is set to run if the previous action failed, was skipped, or timed out. This branch has an email going to me & anyone else with a link to the failed flow run.

This means if a flow fails, then it notifies me and still registers as a failure in the logs.

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Hi @takolota,
Thanks for your reply. Sounds similar to my solution. Do you use Solutions to package your Flows?

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My strategy for error handling within Power Automate Cloud Flows is to actively informing administrators and support staff as soon as something has gone wrong.
These are the key building block:
The first variable builds the unique URL for the Flow instance.
The secound variable contains the name of the Flow.
The branch at the end of workflow
The “Scope: Error Handling” step implements the “has failed, is skipped, has timed out” run after conditions.
The “Terminate: Succeeded” step implements the default “is useful” run after condition.
The “Scope: Error Handling” step contains an email step which send an email* on an error, containing:
The name of the Flow.
A link to the Flow instance.
Click here to read the full article.
*The Flow is created within a Solution and utalisd environment variables

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takolota1 4,974 Moderator on at

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I forgot to update this thread when I made a good Flow Failure Notifications template.

Template: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Cookbook/Flow-Failure-Notifications/td-p/1494079

I really like this one because you can literally copy & paste it into any flow with just a couple of clicks and it's automatically ready to go in most cases.

@jaeiow @Siôn

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Find here a helpful tutorial from Reza Dorrani concerning this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLADf8ne5qQ

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Siôn 85 on at

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I have included an unmanaged Power Platform Solution can be downloaded from my Power-Platform GitHub repository

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