DATA OPS
Tier-1 Pipeline Freshness PagerDuty Escalation
Watches only your business-critical tables and, when one breaches SLA by more than a grace threshold, opens a PagerDuty incident so on-call is woken instead of a Slack message…
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerSchedule: every 5 minutes
- ActionQuery last-load times for tier-1 tablesSnowflake
- LogicKeep breaches past SLA + grace threshold
- LogicDedupe against open incidents
- OutputOpen or update PagerDuty incidentPagerDuty
What it does
This is the high-severity sibling of a Slack watchdog. It monitors a short list of tier-1 tables that feed billing, exec reporting, or customer-facing data. A breach only escalates if the table is past SLA by more than a configured grace period, which prevents flapping. When it does fire, it opens a PagerDuty incident with the table, lag, and downstream blast radius.
When to use it
Use it for the handful of tables where a missed load is a genuine incident, not a chore. Pair it with the broader Slack watchdog so noisy tables stay in Slack and only the critical ones page.
How it works
- 1A schedule runs frequently (for example every 5 minutes).
- 2It queries Snowflake for last-load times of the tier-1 table set.
- 3A logic gate keeps only tables past SLA beyond the grace threshold.
- 4It checks for an existing open incident to avoid duplicates.
- 5It opens or updates a PagerDuty incident with lag and blast radius.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect SnowflakeWarehouses, queries, shares.
- 2Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
- 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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