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Why does Model Builder not have a "tool" to allow you to customize what logs and output you receive?

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AndrewWiegman
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I cannot be the only one that is surprised that a multi-million dollar company that provides services to many fortune 500 companies does not have the most basic functions such as customizing logging and alerting tools within ArcGIS Pro Model Builder.  

I'm extremely new to  ArcGIS, I've been a Server and Network Administrator for the past 2 decades and found this niche field where I can use my skills and my hobbies together.  That being said, every tool I have used in the past 2 decades has the ability to setup and customize logging.  But ESRI apparently doesn't. 

Yes, for sure we can simply add a few lines of Python code, but it's kinda pointless if there's a model that needs to change every month/quarter/year and we forget to add back our manual lines of python code.  

It would be great to have the ability to not only customize logging to say, a text file in a directory, but also alerting via email for not only errors and warnings but also for successfully ran items. 

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ThomasHoman

I never thought about it but you are totally right! 

In all my python code I have a log writing function defined so why not the more visual toolchains like ModelBuilder.