Is it possible to include any details about an update failure in an email notification?
I guess the best you could do is include the contents of update.log, which would include a relevant exception.
Presumably if this was a custom exception (eg like 10389), the message from that exception would be visible.
I’ve trawled through some old funnelback error emails, and found that one collection on one server did produce details from logs in the email, while all others don’t. Looks like it was during the index phase. I wonder if it’s something specific to that setup? Here’s what it looked like: