ai-automation-consultant / Failure Lab

Missing Record 404

The automation treats a normal not-found lookup as a fatal incident.

Category

api-data

Difficulty

standard

Last Run

none

Incident Brief

Identify the real failure and the intended branch behavior.

Broken State

The workflow looks up a lead by external ID, gets 404, and never enters the create branch.

Symptoms

  • New leads never get created.
  • Existing leads update normally.

Trace

crm.lookup external_id=lead_991 status=404
workflow.error=Lookup failed before create branch

Diagnosis