DEVOPS

Discord On-Call Shift Handoff Digest

At every shift change, assembles open incidents, deploys, and active alerts into a single Discord handoff message so the incoming engineer starts with full context.

CategoryDevOps
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSchedule fires at shift boundary
  • ActionFetch firing monitors from DatadogDatadogDatadog
  • ActionPull merged PRs and releases from GitHubGitHubGitHub
  • ActionRead open incidents from PostgresPostgreSQLPostgres
  • LogicAssemble and order handoff digest
  • OutputPost digest to on-call Discord channelDiscordDiscord

What it does

Generates a structured shift-handoff digest and posts it to your on-call Discord channel at each rotation boundary. It pulls the currently firing alerts, the incidents opened during the outgoing shift, and the deploys that landed, then formats everything into one scannable message the incoming engineer can read in under a minute.

When to use it

Use it when your team runs follow-the-sun or daily on-call rotations and verbal or ad-hoc handoffs keep dropping context. It is ideal for teams whose monitoring lives in Datadog and whose deploy history lives in GitHub but who coordinate response in Discord.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule fires at each shift boundary (for example 09:00 and 21:00).
  2. 2The flow queries Datadog for monitors currently in alert or warn state.
  3. 3It pulls merged pull requests and releases from GitHub since the last handoff.
  4. 4It reads open-incident rows from the on-call Postgres table.
  5. 5A formatting step assembles a sectioned digest with severity ordering.
  6. 6The digest is posted to the on-call Discord channel, tagging the incoming role.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  2. 2
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  3. 3
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  4. 4
    Connect DiscordCommunity channels + voice + bots.
  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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