Silent Fail Watches the Automations That Stop Talking

Field notes

Silent Fail works by turning a successful automation run into a heartbeat: the workflow calls a unique endpoint, and the service compares the arrival time with an expected interval plus grace period. It distinguishes Up, Down, and Awaiting first ping, suppresses repeated outage messages, and sends an all-clear after recovery. The homepage also describes an external-monitoring loop through /api/health, acknowledging that the monitoring service itself needs observation.