CUSTOMER SUPPORT

VIP latency regression to PagerDuty + CSM brief

Monitors Datadog for per-account p95 latency regressions on a named enterprise customer, pages on-call when the SLO is breached.

CategoryCustomer Support
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerDatadog per-account p95 latency monitor triggersDatadogDatadog
  • ActionFetch latency timeseries + comparison windowDatadogDatadog
  • LogicBranch on SLO-breach severity (hard vs soft)
  • ActionOpen scoped PagerDuty incident on hard breachPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputPost plain-English regression brief to CSM in SlackSlack

What it does

Catches latency regressions scoped to a single VIP account before they become an escalation. It pages engineering on-call and simultaneously equips the CSM with a customer-ready explanation.

When to use it

Use this when you tag Datadog APM traces or metrics with a `customer` dimension and have contractual latency SLOs for top accounts that you must defend proactively.

How it works

  1. 1A Datadog monitor on per-account p95 latency triggers a webhook when the named account breaches its SLO threshold.
  2. 2The flow fetches the recent latency timeseries and the comparison window to confirm a sustained regression, not a single blip.
  3. 3A logic branch splits SLO-breach severity: hard breach pages on-call, soft breach only notifies.
  4. 4On a hard breach it opens a PagerDuty incident scoped to the account with the metric snapshot.
  5. 5It then posts a CSM brief to Slack summarizing the slowdown in non-technical terms with the affected feature and an ETA placeholder.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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