Automation to Alert if a Ticket hasn't been created.

[Luke Simms]

Hello,

Basically we have had the sync between creating a ticket from our helpdesk email fail a couple of times and it has gone unnoticed.

I was wondering what would be the best way to have a daily check that this is still active but it's automated. 

I have created a Power Automate to send a email at a certain time to the helpdesk to auto generate a ticket. I was then going to create an Automation that resolves that issue when it arrives so we don't really notice it when it's working correctly. 

I then got stuck because I can't seem to see a way to get it to create a ticket if this above process does not happen or anyway to send an alert if the automation fails. 

Any ideas please?

Thanks,

Luke

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Luke Simms,

It may be worth having a look at who is configured as the owner of the automation rule that creates the ticket. You can verify that in the rule's details.

If anything goes wrong with an automation rule, an email notification is sent automatically to the rule owner. Maybe that alone may be enough to cover your use case?

Hope this helps! 

[Paul Wiggers]

Hello @Luke Simms 

Thanks for this question! It's always fun to come up with some logic to solve a problem (that's the closet developer within ;) )

What you are looking for is something like:

• Check daily after automation should have run
• Check if there are issues from a certain e-mail address
• Check if the issues are created since the previous day
• Check if there are any open issues

I haven't run this automation in my environment, but this is what I came up with. Curious to hear how it is working out for you.

[Luke Simms]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for you reply and that looks like it should work and i've got the first part working correctly and the email for failure does not seem to send? It just says No Action Required on the logs. Any ideas of what i'm missing/doing wrong?

[Paul Wiggers]

Hello @Luke Simms 

It looks like the if/else blocks need something to verify. If it can't find issues, it won't trigger. 

I played around a bit and got it to work with this:

So, first you need to look up your issues with the Lookup Issues action, then perform the checks on those results. An extra benefit is that the required checks are a lot easier.

[Shelby Corbitt]

For anyone using this as reference - make sure you capitalize the I in Issues! {{lookupIssues}}