The Spooky Truth About Your Workflows Health Tab

Ever notice strange things happening in your HubSpot automation? Data that changes unexpectedly? Properties that update differently each time? You might have ghosts in your CRM.

If your workflows health tab looks like the screenshot above, you're staring at a paranormal hotspot. Those red arrows are pointing right at your problem - multiple workflows with similar triggers creating the perfect conditions for automation chaos.

Welcome to the Haunted House of Race Conditions

What exactly is a race condition? It's the CRM equivalent of a poltergeist:

• Two or more workflows trigger almost simultaneously
• They're all working on the same piece of data
• They can execute in different orders each time
• You get different results depending on which one finishes first

This creates the most frustrating kind of technical problem. Something breaks, you investigate, everything looks fine in isolation, then it breaks again later. Classic ghost behavior.

Real-World Symptoms Your Workflows Are Haunted

You might be experiencing race conditions if:

• Contact properties sometimes update correctly, sometimes don't
• Deal stages occasionally jump backward for no reason
• Task assignments randomly change owners
• Your team swears "the system is acting weird" but can't prove it

The Exorcism Process: Two Simple Solutions

Fortunately, you don't need holy water to fix this - just some workflow discipline:

Solution 1: Workflow Consolidation

Find those similar workflows and merge them together. One trigger, one workflow, one predictable outcome. No more competing automations.

Solution 2: Create a Master Workflow

Remove all those competing triggers and build a "meta workflow" that executes your actions in a fixed, predictable order every single time.

Don't Let Your Automation Turn Into a Horror Movie

The health tab isn't just another dashboard - it's your ghost detector. Use it regularly to spot these patterns before they create havoc in your system.

Your marketing operations deserves better than "it works most of the time" or "it's just a quirk in the system." Give those ghosts nowhere to hide.

Your future self (and your sanity) will thank you.

What workflow ghosts have you encountered in your HubSpot portal?