Getting Started with Tavio
Build
Maintaining and Extending Integrations
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launching your integration is just the beginning to ensure long term reliability, tavio provides robust monitoring tools like data health , which offers structured insights into every transaction, detailed execution logs for deep dive troubleshooting and debugging, as well as configurable and custom alerts these tools allow you to catch errors early and visualize the performance of your data flows in real time when business needs evolve, your workflows can evolve with them extending functionality follows a safe, structured path you modify and test your logic in a development environment, package the changes into a new versioned bundle , and seamlessly deploy the update to production without disrupting ongoing operations logging and traceability the first line of defense in maintenance is visibility tavio provides two layers of logging to ensure you can trace exactly what happened during any execution system logs every workflow execution generates a standard log file these flat files provide a chronological record of the execution flow, capturing start and end times, node execution status, and system level errors the log node for deeper context, you can inject custom logic using the log node this allows you to write dynamic messages into the log stream—such as "entering inventory list loop" or "non fatal error thx1138"—making it significantly easier to isolate logic branches and specific transactions during troubleshooting transactional telemetry with data health while logs give you a high level view of the workflow's health, data health lets you drill down to individual records this framework moves beyond simple text files to a searchable, database driven system that provides telemetry on every single transaction in real time granular tracking using datasuccess, dataerror, and dataskip nodes, you can log the precise status of every individual entity (e g , candidate , requisition , invoice , or inventory item ) processed by your integration searchable metrics each entry includes mandatory primary keys, such as a part numbers or requisition job types, as well as an optional message and several standard system fields like time stamps and execution ids this allows support teams to instantly search the data health dashboard to see if a specific record succeeded or failed, without parsing massive log files custom metadata for advanced debugging, you can capture up to 50 fields of custom metadata per record while not directly searchable in the ui, this data allows you to export detailed telemetry to your preferred reporting and business intelligence (bi) tools for comprehensive analysis proactive alerting to ensure you are notified of issues before your users report them, tavio offers a flexible alerting architecture standard alerts the platform includes 14 built in system events, such as workflow failed , credential expiry , or error or execution time threshold exceeded these can be configured globally to notify your support team via email, sms, or slack custom notifications for specific business logic failures, you can use the notify pack to build custom alert logic directly into your workflow, sending dynamic messages to specific stakeholders when unique conditions are met error recovery and replay when errors occur, the platform provides mechanisms to recover data and resume operations without data loss capturing state while best practices involve taking steps to ensure that sensitive data such as pii does not remain in transit any longer than necessary, the tavio platform provides multiple mechanisms to allow the capture of payloads which cause an error for analysis and reprocessing replay mechanisms the tavio platform is equally flexible in terms of mechanisms for replaying data once an issue has been identified and resolved for example, developers can build user input form triggers that allow support staff to manually re submit specific records for processing once the underlying data issue is resolved or on the other end of the complexity spectrum, workflows which rely on our net change engine can simple re run the integration, and items which could not be committed in previous runs will be automagically reprocessed lifecycle management the warehouse integrations are rarely static; apis change, and business requirements grow the warehouse serves as the central version control system that enables you to manage this evolution safely development & testing all updates should be built and validated in a development environment which was built for the affected solution, ensuring production data is never at risk once that development is tested and ready to go, the developer who completes the maintenance will update the bundle associated with the solution and import it into the tavio hub in order to make that solution available for deployment to the appropriate staging and production environments