AI AGENTS

Re-route PagerDuty pages when the primary responder is offline

When a PagerDuty incident triggers, this workflow checks the primary on-call responder's calendar and presence.

CategoryAI Agents
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerPagerDuty incident triggeredPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • ActionRead primary responder's calendar availabilityGoogle CalendarGoogle Calendar
  • LogicBranch: responder offline or busy?
  • ActionFind next available in-hours responderPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • ActionReassign incident to new responderPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputPost handoff notice to incident channelSlack

What it does

Catches a fresh PagerDuty page, verifies whether the primary on-call engineer is actually reachable right now, and silently rebalances the page to the next available responder when they are not. No more incidents sitting unacknowledged because the assignee is asleep or out of office.

When to use it

Use it for global rotations where the schedule says someone is on-call but their calendar (PTO, focus block, travel) tells a different story. Ideal for teams that page across timezones and cannot afford a 15-minute ack delay before the schedule auto-escalates.

How it works

  1. 1A PagerDuty incident webhook fires and identifies the current primary responder.
  2. 2The workflow reads that responder's Google Calendar for an active out-of-office or busy block.
  3. 3A logic branch decides: if they are free, leave the page as-is and exit; if blocked, continue.
  4. 4It queries PagerDuty for the next on-call responder whose local time falls in working hours.
  5. 5It reassigns the incident in PagerDuty to that responder.
  6. 6It posts a Slack message to the incident channel naming the new owner and why the handoff happened.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  2. 2
    Connect Google CalendarEvents, attendees, availability.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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