Send Incident Response Digests
Monitor Slack and GitHub for errors every 4 hours, correlate signals using AI, and deliver a structured incident digest to your inbox with severity ratings and actions.
Incident ManagementSlackGitHubDevOps
AI Incident Response Digest
What It Does
- Runs every 4 hours and proactively scans your Slack channels for error keywords and your GitHub Actions for pipeline failures.
- Uses an AI agent to correlate the signals across both sources.
- Emails you a structured incident digest before your users report the problem.
How It Works
| Step | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scheduled Trigger | Fires every 4 hours to initiate the pipeline automatically. |
| 2 | Slack Node | Fetches messages from the last 4 hours containing keywords like error, failure, failed, down, critical, alert, exception, timeout, crash, incident, outage, or 500. |
| 3 | GitHub Node | Fetches failed GitHub Actions workflow runs from the last 4 hours across all your repositories. |
| 4 | AI Agent | Receives both data sources, assigns severity (CRITICAL, HIGH, or LOW), writes a root cause analysis, and outputs 3 recommended actions formatted as an HTML email. |
| 5 | Gmail Node | Delivers the digest to your inbox. If no incidents are found, it sends a single All clear confirmation. |
What You Get
- Severity rating assigned to the incident (CRITICAL, HIGH, or LOW).
- Active Slack alerts grouped by channel.
- GitHub pipeline failures grouped by repository and branch.
- A root cause analysis correlating Slack and GitHub signals in a few sentences.
- Actionable recommendations: immediate action, investigation step, and prevention step.
- An All clear email when nothing is wrong, keeping noise to a minimum.
Who It Is For
- On-call engineers who currently monitor multiple Slack channels manually.
- Tech leads and engineering managers who need incident visibility without living in Slack.
- DevOps and SRE teams managing CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories.
- Startups and scale-ups without a full enterprise observability stack.
Setup
- Connect your Slack account via OAuth (requires public channel read access).
- Connect your GitHub account using a Personal Access Token (requires repo and read scopes).
- Connect your Gmail account and grant all necessary permissions for ongoing access.
- Publish the workflow so it begins running every 4 hours automatically.
- Expect your first digest within 4 hours of publishing.
Customize It
- Change the cron schedule to run hourly if you want tighter monitoring intervals.
- Edit the keyword filter in the Slack node to match your team's specific alert vocabulary.
- Update the AI Agent system prompt to include your on-call runbook or internal escalation policies.
- Change the Gmail recipient to a shared team inbox or an incident management email address.
Built By
- Shamanth Kumar M, Staff Technical Program Manager with over 14 years in engineering delivery.
- Passionate about building intelligent automation systems that replace manual work, from sprint tracking to DevOps pipelines to delivery health dashboards.
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