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Auto-lift the merge freeze when error budget recovers
Periodically rechecks Honeycomb burn rate for frozen services and, once burn drops below the safe threshold for a sustained window, removes merge-freeze labels from held PRs…
How it runs
The automated pipeline, trigger to output.
- TriggerRecovery-check schedule every few minutes
- ActionFind PRs and services under merge freeze in GitHubGitHub
- ActionQuery Honeycomb burn rate over the recovery windowHoneycomb
- LogicSelect services that stayed below safe threshold
- OutputRemove freeze labels and post all-clear to SlackSlack
What it does
Closes the loop on burn-triggered freezes. It watches the burn rate of services currently under a merge freeze and automatically lifts the freeze once the budget has stopped burning for a sustained period, so freezes never get stuck on after recovery.
When to use it
Pair it with any freeze workflow. Teams routinely forget to unfreeze after an incident calms down; this removes that manual step and prevents stale freezes from blocking shipping for days.
How it works
- 1A schedule triggers the flow every few minutes.
- 2The flow finds GitHub PRs and services currently carrying a `merge-freeze` label.
- 3For each frozen service it queries Honeycomb for the recent burn rate and checks it has stayed below the safe threshold for the configured recovery window.
- 4A logic step keeps still-burning services frozen and selects only the recovered ones.
- 5It removes the freeze label from those PRs and posts an all-clear to Slack listing which services and PRs are now unblocked.
Set it up
What you configure once, before turning it on.
- 1Connect HoneycombDistributed traces and queries.
- 2Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
- 3Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
- 4Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
- 5Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
- 6Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.
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