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Honeycomb latency alert to Slack triage thread
When a Honeycomb latency alert fires, an agent investigates the traces and posts a structured triage summary to a Slack channel with the top suspect span and a recommended next…
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerHoneycomb latency alert firesHoneycomb
- ActionQuery slow traces in the alert windowHoneycomb
- ActionRank spans by share of total latencyHoneycomb
- LogicBranch: new pattern vs. known recurrence
- ActionAgent writes concise triage summary
- OutputPost triage thread to Slack on-call channelSlack
What it does
Replaces the noisy raw latency ping in Slack with an investigated, human-readable triage. The agent pulls the relevant traces, identifies the slowest contributing span, and posts a tidy thread the on-call can act on in seconds.
When to use it
When latency alerts land in Slack but engineers waste minutes opening Honeycomb to figure out what's actually slow. Best for on-call rotations that want context delivered to where they already are.
How it works
- 1A Honeycomb latency alert fires for a service.
- 2The agent queries Honeycomb for the slow traces in the alert window.
- 3It ranks spans by their share of total latency to find the top suspect.
- 4A branch decides whether this is a new pattern or a recurrence of a known issue.
- 5The agent writes a concise triage summary with the suspect span and a recommended next step.
- 6It posts the summary as a Slack message to the on-call channel.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect HoneycombDistributed traces and queries.
- 2Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 3Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 4Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 5Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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