August 27 Auth0 Community Ask Me Anything: Actions

There has been feedback from a few customers that have use cases where logs should be sent to external services from the Actions code.

Customers normally implement their own streams from those Actions using HTTP requests, which is understandably a pain due to additional complexity, code repetition, potential performance, errors, and maintenance issues.

There may be some improvement to that combining the newest Actions Transaction Metadata with the upcoming Actions Modules. Which would help reduce the complexity, code repetition, maintenance issues, by defining Modules with functions that can be reused across Actions, and using Transaction Metadata and Cache to store and reuse some values.

Performance issues and errors would still be a problem due to the nature of the communication.

All that being said, there is some potential for exploring the idea of connecting the Actions to be able to communicate through some stream to an external service.

Would you mind posting your specific use case? Which could serve as evidence for future ideating

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