IT OPS

End-of-Shift On-Call Handoff Brief to Slack

On a schedule at shift boundaries, pulls open PagerDuty incidents, recent Datadog alerts, and unresolved Sentry issues.

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSchedule fires at shift boundary
  • ActionFetch open PagerDuty incidents + notesPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • ActionPull Datadog alerts from shift windowDatadogDatadog
  • ActionPull unresolved Sentry issues over thresholdSentrySentry
  • LogicGroup into Active / Watch / Resolved sections
  • OutputPost handoff brief to on-call Slack channelSlack

What it does

Generates a complete shift-change handoff packet and posts it to your on-call Slack channel a few minutes before the rotation flips. The incoming engineer opens one message and sees everything that's still in flight: open incidents, who touched them last, alerts that fired during the shift, and Sentry issues still climbing.

When to use it

Use it when your team does scheduled rotations (daily or weekly) and verbal or ad-hoc handoffs keep dropping context. Best for teams already paging through PagerDuty with Datadog monitors and Sentry on the application layer.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule fires at the configured handoff time (e.g. 08:55 and 20:55).
  2. 2Fetch all triggered and acknowledged PagerDuty incidents plus their assignees and notes.
  3. 3Pull Datadog monitor alerts that transitioned in the last shift window.
  4. 4Pull unresolved Sentry issues above a frequency threshold.
  5. 5A formatting step groups everything into Active / Watch / Resolved-this-shift sections.
  6. 6Post the assembled brief as a single threaded Slack message tagging the next on-call.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  2. 2
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  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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