The goal of building automations is to make your life easier. Let the basics run on their own, with fewer switches to bother with and things to remember. Or at least that’s the idea. But there are downsides to automation. The biggest being that if and when things break down, there’s usually no way to find out unless it’s too late. Be it a cron job or a script that failed, or perhaps a backup that didn’t complete, automations tend to stop running without much of a heads-up. This is, obviously, problematic.