Errors

[jedman20]

We have a dashboard that makes a few API calls which the interval plugin refreshes every 30 seconds. This works great and looks terrific except for one thing - occasionally (anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours) one of the API calls will fail. That's fine, it refreshes again in 30 seconds and doesn't matter, except it pops up a big red error which has to be manually closed by someone.

My suggestion is to either have an option on a data source to control what it does when there are errors (how long to show it, maybe send it as an email instead of a popup) or not allow public viewers of a dashboard to see the error.

[melohagan]

Hey @jedman20

It's a good idea, although this is not a typical use-case. Usually if the front-end is making an API call you want to user to be alerted if something has gone wrong.

In future I think there's plans to possibly push notifications from automations. That way you could have an automation with a cron job that can notify users on success/error.

At the moment you could use a Cron automation in combination with the Send Email action if that would be useful to you?