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title: "Monitoring source failures and selection quality"
description: "How can you distinguish an empty source feed from an ingestion failure?"
status: "coming-soon"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://bulnik.dev/en/articles/topics/T59.10/"
topicId: "T59.10"
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> Coming soon — this article is being prepared. Below are its question, intended outcome, and place in the story.

## The question

How can you distinguish an empty source feed from an ingestion failure?

## What we will work through

Distinguish an empty source feed from an ingestion failure.

## Before you begin

Previously covered: RSS and Atom ingestion; Ingestion through an official API.

- [RSS and Atom ingestion](/en/articles/topics/T59.02/)
- [Ingestion through an official API](/en/articles/topics/T59.03/)