TL;DR: Set alert frequency to First Violation to avoid alert fatigue. [Official Census docs (sync alerts)]: Each sync has six alert types: Failed Sync and Failed Records (both on by default), Sync Status, Full Sync Triggered, Sync Runtime, and Record Count Deviation. The gotcha: Failed Records alerts only when 75% of records are invalid in the source or rejected by the destination by default, so a sync can quietly drop thousands of records.

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Census Failed Records alert defaults to 75% of records: lower it for real coverage
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## Fix
1. Set alert frequency to First Violation to avoid alert fatigue.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
2. Failed Records defaults to alerting only when 75% of records are invalid or rejected, which is far too lenient for most pipelines; lower it or set it to any-record for critical syncs.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.

## Details
[Official Census docs (sync alerts)]: Each sync has six alert types: Failed Sync and Failed Records (both on by default), Sync Status, Full Sync Triggered, Sync Runtime, and Record Count Deviation. Lower the threshold, even to any-record, for syncs you care about. Full Sync Triggered alerts tell you why a full sync ran, Sync Runtime fires when a sync runs long, and Record Count Deviation catches unexpected drops against the running average.

## When to use
You hit exactly this: Census Failed Records alert defaults to 75% of records: lower it for real coverage in Census Failed Records.

## When not to use
A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

## Compatibility
Census Failed Records.

## Root cause
The gotcha: Failed Records alerts only when 75% of records are invalid in the source or rejected by the destination by default, so a sync can quietly drop thousands of records.

## Edge cases
- Context: Official docs (Census/Activations sync alerts): documents the six alert types and the gotcha that catches teams.

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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