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title: Legacy: Capability Execution Tracking- Failure Flow Action
description: The Capability Execution Tracking - Failure flow action records a failure to the audit record.
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# Legacy: Capability Execution Tracking- Failure Flow Action

The Capability Execution Tracking - Failure flow action records a failure to the audit record.

**Important:**

This feature is no longer deployed, enhanced, or supported. It has been replaced by Capability Implementation Execution. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support knowledge base.

The Capability Execution Tracking - Failure flow action can be used with any flow to record a failure condition.

## Results

Possible results for this flow action are:

|Result|Description|
|------|-----------|
|Success|The audit record state is set to **Error** and a message indicating the error is recorded.|

## Input variables

Input variables determine the initial behavior of the flow action.

|Variable|Description|
|--------|-----------|
|capabilityExecutionId|System identifier for the audit record. This is the output from any of the Begin auditing activities.|
|errorMessage|Message indicating the reason for the failure.|
|flowName|Name of the flow. Supplied by the system.|

## Output variables

There are no output variables.

**Parent Topic:**[Common Security Operations integration flows and orchestration activities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/common-wf-activities.md)