DEVOPS

Auto-rollback Vercel promotion when preview errors spike in Sentry

After a Vercel preview is promoted, it drives synthetic traffic for a short bake window, checks Sentry for a new-error spike.

CategoryDevOps
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerevent
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerVercel deployment promoted to productionVercelVercel
  • ActionDrive synthetic traffic during bake windowBrowserbase
  • ActionQuery Sentry for new release errorsSentrySentry
  • LogicErrors breach budget?
  • ActionRoll back to previous production deployVercelVercel
  • OutputNotify team with Sentry issuesSlack

What it does

This workflow adds a post-promotion safety net. Once a preview is promoted to production, it sends synthetic traffic through the critical user flows for a short bake window, then queries Sentry for newly introduced errors tied to that release. If new errors breach the configured error budget, it immediately rolls back to the prior production deployment via the Vercel API and posts the offending Sentry issues to Slack.

When to use it

Use it when a smoke check at build time is not enough and you need to catch runtime errors that only appear under real traffic. It gives you fast, automatic recovery instead of waiting for users to report a broken release.

How it works

  1. 1Vercel fires a deployment promoted-to-production event.
  2. 2A headless browser exercises the critical flows to generate synthetic traffic during the bake window.
  3. 3The flow queries Sentry for new errors attributed to the release.
  4. 4A branch checks whether new errors exceed the error budget.
  5. 5On breach, it rolls back to the previous production deployment via Vercel.
  6. 6It posts the breaching Sentry issues and rollback status to Slack.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect VercelDeploys, runtime logs, analytics.
  2. 2
    Connect BrowserbaseHeadless browsers, sessions, replays.
  3. 3
    Connect SentryErrors, performance, releases.
  4. 4
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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