IT OPS

Sustained Edge Silence Escalation to PagerDuty

Distinguishes a brief blip from a real outage: only when an edge box stays silent past a grace threshold does it page on-call via PagerDuty and link the existing Discord triage…

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerEvery two minutes: re-check late devices
  • ActionRead silence duration for late devicesPostgreSQLPostgres
  • LogicKeep only devices past grace, not yet paged
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident scaled by durationPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputPost PagerDuty link into Discord triage threadDiscordDiscord
  • ActionMark device escalated in PostgresPostgreSQLPostgres

What it does

Guards against alert fatigue by waiting out transient drops. It re-checks a device that missed a beat and, only if it remains silent beyond a configurable grace period, opens a PagerDuty incident with the site, device, and duration of silence — then drops the PagerDuty link into the device's Discord triage thread so chat and paging stay connected.

When to use it

Use it when a momentary network hiccup shouldn't wake anyone, but a genuinely down site must page immediately. It sits one tier above the triage-thread workflow, escalating only confirmed sustained outages.

How it works

  1. 1A scheduled check runs every two minutes against the heartbeat ledger.
  2. 2An action pulls devices flagged `late` and reads how long each has been silent.
  3. 3A logic step keeps only devices past the grace threshold and not already paged.
  4. 4An action triggers a PagerDuty incident with severity scaled to the silence duration.
  5. 5The workflow posts the PagerDuty incident link into the device's open Discord thread and marks it escalated in Postgres.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect DiscordCommunity channels + voice + bots.
  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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