IT OPS

Severity-Tiered Incident Router

Classifies a Sentry-confirmed incident into a severity tier and routes the right plain-language update to the right place: critical posts to the status page immediately.

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSentry alert receivedSentrySentry
  • ActionDraft summary + propose severity tierOpenAI
  • LogicBranch by tier: critical/major vs minor
  • OutputCritical/major: publish to status pageHTTP webhook
  • OutputMinor: hold in Slack for reviewSlack

What it does

Applies a severity policy so that not every incident gets the same treatment. It scores the Sentry issue, picks a tier, and branches: critical and major incidents publish a public status update fast, while minor ones are held in Slack for a human to decide whether customers even need to hear about it.

When to use it

Use it when you over-communicate small blips or under-communicate big ones because everything follows one path. This separates true customer-impacting outages from internal noise and matches your comms urgency to actual impact.

How it works

  1. 1A Sentry alert delivers the issue, affected release, and event volume.
  2. 2OpenAI drafts a plain-language summary and proposes a severity tier from the impact signals.
  3. 3A branch routes by tier: critical or major versus minor.
  4. 4Critical and major updates publish straight to the status page via HTTP webhook and ping the incident channel in Slack.
  5. 5Minor incidents are posted to Slack only, with a publish button so a human can escalate if needed.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect SentryErrors, performance, releases.
  2. 2
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  3. 3
    Connect HTTP webhookTrigger any URL on agent actions.
  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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