ENGINEERING

Alert-driven auto-rollback with PagerDuty escalation

Listens for a Sentry alert that a just-promoted release's crash-free rate has dropped below threshold, immediately re-aliases the previous Vercel deployment.

CategoryEngineering
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerevent
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSentry crash-free breach alert webhookSentrySentry
  • LogicAlert matches active production release?
  • ActionLook up previous good deployment in PostgresPostgreSQLPostgres
  • ActionRe-alias Vercel production to previous buildVercelVercel
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident with detailsPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputAnnounce rollback in SlackSlack

What it does

Reacts to failure after promotion rather than gating before it. When Sentry fires a metric alert that the current production release's crash-free session rate has fallen below the line, the flow rolls production back to the last known-good Vercel deployment and pages the on-call engineer with context.

When to use it

Use it as a safety net behind a promotion gate, or on its own when releases go straight to production and you need fast, automatic reversion the moment real users start crashing. Ideal for teams with a PagerDuty on-call rotation that want rollback to happen before a human even acks.

How it works

  1. 1A Sentry metric alert webhook fires when the production release breaches the crash-free threshold.
  2. 2A branch confirms the alert is for the active production release and not a stale one.
  3. 3The flow looks up the previous known-good deployment ID stored in Postgres.
  4. 4It re-aliases the Vercel production domain to that previous deployment.
  5. 5It opens a PagerDuty incident with the release tag, crash-free rate, and rollback target.
  6. 6It posts the rollback action to Slack so the wider team sees it instantly.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect SentryErrors, performance, releases.
  2. 2
    Connect VercelDeploys, runtime logs, analytics.
  3. 3
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  4. 4
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  5. 5
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  6. 6
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  7. 7
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  8. 8
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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