# The 5 Silent Failures in Data Pipelines

DevFeed: [The 5 Silent Failures in Data Pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-5-silent-failures-in-data-pipelines-37149.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://seattledataguy.substack.com/p/the-5-silent-failures-in-data-pipelines>)

Author: SeattleDataGuy

Published: 2026-04-24T19:06:02Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SeattleDataGuy's Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/seattledataguy-s-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [Data pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-pipelines.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [CSV](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/csv.md>)

Tags: [csv](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/csv.md>), [dashboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboard.md>), [data-pipeline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipeline.md>), [data-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipelines.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [reports](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reports.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how data pipelines can fail silently without triggering errors or obvious warnings, causing stale or incorrect data to reach dashboards and reports. It introduces schema drift as one failure mode, including unexpected changes to CSV or XML files loaded from SFTP.

## Source excerpt

How Your Pipelines Lie to You Without Throwing a Single Error