IntegrationBeginnermonitoringoperations
How do you monitor integration failures?
Real World Scenario
Overnight sync failed silently last week. You list basic monitoring a junior should know.
Expected Answer
• Review Setup → Apex Jobs, Bulk API job status, and integration user login errors
• Log errors to custom Integration_Log__c with payload hash and status
• Alert on-call when error rate exceeds threshold via email or Slack webhook
• Dashboard retry counts and oldest unprocessed messages
• Run reconciliation reports comparing source vs Salesforce counts
Follow-Up Questions & Answers
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Storage for messages that failed max retries for manual replay or fix—common in middleware patterns.
Architect Perspective
Ops answer: log + alert + reconcile—three pillars without overengineering.