TICKET MANAGEMENT

Detect a duplicate-ticket spike, open a PagerDuty incident, and broadcast one reply

Monitors clustered Zendesk tickets and, when one cluster grows past a volume threshold in a short window, opens a PagerDuty incident and pushes a single acknowledgement reply…

CategoryTicket Management
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerevent
Steps5
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerTicket added to a duplicate clusterZendeskZendesk
  • ActionRead cluster growth rate from PostgresPostgreSQLPostgres
  • LogicBranch on spike threshold within time window
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident with cluster summaryPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputBroadcast acknowledgement to all requestersZendeskZendesk

What it does

Treats a fast-growing cluster of duplicate tickets as an early incident signal: it raises a PagerDuty alert for engineering and simultaneously sends one acknowledgement to all the customers caught in the same issue.

When to use it

When a surge of identical complaints is your fastest outage detector. Use it to page on-call before dashboards catch up and to reassure affected customers immediately.

How it works

  1. 1A new Zendesk ticket is added to its cluster, triggering the flow.
  2. 2The cluster's recent growth rate is read from Postgres.
  3. 3A threshold branch checks whether the cluster crossed the spike limit within the time window; below it, nothing fires.
  4. 4On a spike, a PagerDuty incident is created with the cluster summary and ticket count.
  5. 5A single acknowledgement reply is broadcast to every requester in the cluster through Zendesk.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect ZendeskTickets, queues, knowledge base.
  2. 2
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  3. 3
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  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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