Catch paused Sendible queues before content stops going out

Every Monday your Sendible profiles and queues get logged to a spreadsheet, and your team gets a Slack ping only when a queue is sitting paused.

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Every Monday at 8:10am, audit the health of my Sendible publishing setup and log it, so we never discover that a client's content stopped going out a week too late. Use a cron trigger for the Monday 8:10am schedule.

Start by pulling the current state of the account. Use Sendible "Get Social Profiles" to list every connected social profile and profile group, and Sendible "Get Queues" to list every publishing queue along with its posting schedule and its pause state.

Append a dated snapshot to a Google Sheets tracking tab using "Append Values". Write one row per queue with four columns: the audit date in YYYY-MM-DD form, the queue name, that queue's posting times collapsed into a single readable comma separated string, and whether the queue is paused as Yes or No. Always append below the existing rows and never overwrite them, so the tab accumulates a week over week history of the publishing setup. The spreadsheet and the tab name should be easy to change at the top of the workflow.

Then, only if at least one queue came back paused, send a Slack message to the social team channel using Slack "Send a Message". Keep it to a short bulleted list, one bullet per paused queue, naming the queue and the profiles affected so someone knows whose content is at risk. Resolve the affected profile names from the Sendible "Get Social Profiles" results. If a paused queue does not carry an association to specific profiles, name the queue on its own rather than guessing at which profiles it feeds. Do not dump the full queue inventory into Slack; the spreadsheet is the record, and the message exists only to get someone to unpause the queue before the week's content silently fails to publish.

Skip the Slack step entirely when every queue is active. If zero queues are paused, the workflow should finish after writing to the sheet and send nothing at all, so the channel only ever hears about real problems.

Scope note for whoever builds this: Sendible exposes publishing operations only. There is no operation to list already scheduled or published posts, and no analytics or engagement endpoints. Keep this workflow to the queue and profile inventory plus the pause-state alert, and do not add post level or engagement reporting.

What does this prompt do?

  • Checks your Sendible account every Monday morning and pulls every connected social profile, profile group, and publishing queue.
  • Adds a dated row to your tracking spreadsheet for each queue, including its posting times and whether it is paused, so you build a week by week history.
  • Posts a short Slack alert naming any paused queue and the profiles it affects, so someone can switch it back on before the week's content silently fails.
  • Stays completely quiet when every queue is active, so the channel only hears about real problems.

What do I need to use this?

  • A Sendible account with your social profiles and publishing queues already set up.
  • A Google account and a spreadsheet with a tab set aside for the audit history.
  • A Slack workspace and the channel your social team actually watches.

How can I customize it?

  • Change when it runs. Monday at 8:10am catches problems before the week's content is due, but a Friday afternoon check works too.
  • Point it at a different spreadsheet or tab, or add your own columns such as client name or account manager.
  • Send the alert to a different channel, or to one person directly during holiday cover.

FAQs

What happens if none of my queues are paused?
Nothing gets sent to Slack. The spreadsheet still gets its weekly rows so you keep the full history, but the channel stays quiet unless there is something to fix. That is the point: an alert that fires every week gets ignored.
Will this tell me which posts went out last week?
No. The Sendible connection covers your publishing setup rather than post history or engagement stats, so this check focuses on whether your queues and profiles are healthy and ready to publish.
Does it unpause the queue for me?
No. It flags the problem and names the queue and affected profiles so a person can review it. Queues are often paused deliberately, for a client holiday or a campaign break, so unpausing stays a human decision.
We manage a lot of clients in one Sendible account. Will it cover all of them?
Yes. It pulls every connected profile and every queue on the account, so each client's queues get their own row in the spreadsheet every week.
Do I need to create a new spreadsheet for this?
No, an existing one is fine. Point it at any tab and each run simply adds new rows underneath what is already there, so nothing gets overwritten.

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