# Built in notify on failure?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/built-in-notify-on-failure/13318>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 15, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/built-in-notify-on-failure/13318 "2013-08-15T22:37:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jesse\_Keating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jesse\_Keating](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jesse_Keating)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/built-in-notify-on-failure/13318/1 "2013-08-15T22:37:34Z")

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Has there been any thought to a built in notify hook on host failure (unreachable or failure) that playbook authors could hook into if they wished to do some sort of clean up or alerting on failed and/or unreachable hosts?

-jlk

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/built-in-notify-on-failure/13318/2 "2013-08-15T23:04:04Z")

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I’m open to it.