How to create automation that will fail for sure (for test purposes)?

Question

Hi!

I need to test a new account with a list of people in it that I set as an Automation owner, so that all this list of people will receive a notification email when an automation Fails.

I am trying to test it.

For the test I need to create an automation that will 100% fail, but I am not succeeding. It keeps saying Issues accrued in the Automation log, but not automation Failed.

Please advise scenario that will make automation fail.

Mykenna Cepek · Answer

Former software developer to the rescue:

Executing the above will generate:

And it will also send you an email that the rule failed.

Stephen Wrathall_69gv73 · Answer

Or even simpler, just configure a Send Web Request action to https://makeMeFail

Nicole Robertson_duuiqz · Answer

I would set up an automation to send a webhook and deliberately include invalid JSON so that the response code is an error