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Outcomes and Thresholds
Automation Watchdog can monitor more than whether a workflow checked in on time. It can also monitor whether recent work quality is staying within acceptable limits.
Check-in outcomes
Each check-in can optionally include an outcome:
| Outcome | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Success | 1 | The reported step completed successfully |
| Failure | 2 | The reported step failed |
If no outcome is supplied, the check-in still satisfies timing but does not participate in threshold evaluation.
What threshold monitoring evaluates
Percent rule
Success rate
Alert when the success rate across the recent outcome window falls below the configured threshold percentage.
Consecutive rule
Failure streak
Alert when failures happen back to back often enough to cross the configured consecutive failure limit.
Threshold settings
| Setting | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Window Size | How many recent outcomes are considered |
| Minimum Observations | How many outcomes must exist before evaluation starts |
| Threshold Percent | Minimum acceptable success rate |
| Consecutive Failure Limit | Maximum allowed failure streak |
Why this matters
Timing-only monitoring answers "did the process keep moving?"
Threshold monitoring answers "is the process still performing well enough?"
That combination is useful when a workflow is technically alive but becoming operationally unhealthy.
Reset behavior
Threshold counters persist until one of these happens:
- the watch is explicitly cleared
- for scheduled watches, a new occurrence starts while the condition is already in good standing and Reset on Good Standing is enabled
Normal successful check-ins do not clear the rolling threshold window. They continue the window and only reset the consecutive-failure streak.