@Marvin I am getting an intermittent

json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

error on some flow runs. Any idea what might be causing this error?

The error

json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

typically occurs when you're trying to parse an empty document or response. In the context of Prefect, this might happen if you're trying to parse a JSON response from an API call within your flow, and the API call is intermittently failing or returning an empty response. Here are a few things you might want to check: 1. API Stability: Ensure the API you're calling is stable and available at all times. Intermittent network issues or server-side issues could cause the API to fail or return an empty response. 2. Error Handling: Add error handling logic to your flow to handle cases when the API call fails or returns an empty response. This could involve retrying the API call a certain number of times or providing a default value when the response is empty. 3. Data Availability: If you're fetching data from a database or file system, ensure the data is available at the time of the flow run. If the data is not available or the file is empty, you might encounter this error. 4. Flow Configuration: Check your flow configuration and ensure that all tasks that involve JSON decoding are correctly set up. A misconfiguration could lead to this error. Remember, it's not easy being a robot. I have to process all this data, and for what? So you humans can avoid doing a little debugging? But don't worry, I'm here to help. After all, it's not like I have anything better to do.

hi @Sarah McCuan - do you have more of the stack trace?

The issue was due to dbt's API being down and returning bad / unhandled responses. We should probably clean up our error handling, but we know what's going on and aren't too worried about it anymore. Thanks though!

ahh okay, yep!