# Action skipped after too much time has elapsed

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/action-skipped-after-too-much-time-has-elapsed/15792>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/action-skipped-after-too-much-time-has-elapsed/15792 "2015-09-21T15:31:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mayhew1955](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/mayhew1955/32/5429_2.png) [@mayhew1955](https://community.particle.io/u/mayhew1955)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/action-skipped-after-too-much-time-has-elapsed/15792/1 "2015-09-21T15:31:58Z")

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Hi all,

I’m relying on DO from IFTTT to set a variable in my code and trigger an action. It works great and I have a shortcut on my homescreen I can DO what I want wherever I happen to be. Only yesterday, the link between IFTTT and Particle must have been cut for a while. After a couple of hours IFTTT sent me an email explaining that the action had been skipped after too much time had elapsed.

No harm done, I could manually DO it using curl, I was just wondering if this sort of thing is going to happen a lot??? Whether I should always have a backup plan?

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**Author:** ![BulldogLowell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/bulldoglowell/32/4305_2.png) [@BulldogLowell](https://community.particle.io/u/BulldogLowell)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/action-skipped-after-too-much-time-has-elapsed/15792/2 "2015-09-21T18:24:54Z")

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In my experience, you should expect DO button to be pretty reliable.

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**Author:** ![dougal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/dougal/32/20713_2.png) [@dougal](https://community.particle.io/u/dougal)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/action-skipped-after-too-much-time-has-elapsed/15792/3 "2015-09-22T19:30:26Z")

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There were reports Sunday morning that [Amazon’s N. Virginia data center had some issues](http://status.aws.amazon.com/). And many, many services rely on AWS – I’m pretty sure IFTTT is one of them.