PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Page the on-call owner when a critical-path Monday blocker stays unresolved

Watches Monday.com for items on the critical path that are overdue and blocking others; if the blocker is still unaddressed after a grace window, it escalates by paging…

CategoryProject Management
Enginesim
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerevent
Steps5
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerCritical-path Monday item goes overduemonday.com
  • LogicConfirm item is blocking downstream work
  • LogicWait out grace window
  • ActionRe-check Monday for resolutionmonday.com
  • OutputPage on-call owner via PagerDutyPagerDutyPagerDuty

What it does

This workflow watches Monday.com items tagged as critical-path. When one becomes overdue while still blocking downstream items, it starts a grace timer. If the blocker is still neither reassigned nor rescheduled when the timer ends, it treats the stall as an incident and pages the owning team's on-call via PagerDuty.

When to use it

Use it for blockers that genuinely cannot wait for the next standup, like a launch-gating dependency. A Slack ping is easy to ignore; a page is not. This reserves the loud channel for the small number of blockers that are both overdue and on the critical path.

How it works

  1. 1A Monday.com item on the critical path flips to overdue.
  2. 2A filter confirms the item is actually blocking one or more downstream items.
  3. 3A timed logic step waits out a grace window for a human to act.
  4. 4It re-checks Monday.com to see whether the blocker was rescheduled or reassigned.
  5. 5If still unresolved, it opens a PagerDuty incident routed to the owning team's on-call.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect monday.comVisual work management for teams.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  4. 4
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  5. 5
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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