TICKET MANAGEMENT

Alert Slack When an Intercom Issue Theme Spikes

Hourly, recounts conversations per recurring theme and posts a Slack alert to the on-call channel whenever any theme's volume jumps sharply above its rolling baseline.

CategoryTicket Management
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerHourly schedule triggers check
  • ActionRead last hour's conversations and assign themesIntercomIntercom
  • ActionUpdate counts vs rolling baselinePostgreSQLPostgres
  • LogicFlag themes exceeding spike multiplier
  • OutputPost deduped alert to on-call SlackSlack

What it does

Watches your clustered Intercom themes for sudden volume spikes and pings the right Slack channel the moment a known issue starts trending, so you catch incidents from support signal before they escalate.

When to use it

Use it when a backend regression or outage shows up first as a wave of similar tickets. This turns that wave into a single, timely alert instead of a slow trickle of duplicate reports.

How it works

  1. 1An hourly schedule triggers the check.
  2. 2The flow reads the last hour's Intercom conversations and assigns each to its nearest existing theme using stored fingerprints in Postgres.
  3. 3It updates per-theme hourly counts and compares each against that theme's rolling 7-day baseline.
  4. 4A logic step flags themes whose current rate exceeds the baseline by the configured spike multiplier.
  5. 5For each flagged theme it composes a message with the theme label, current vs. baseline volume, and sample conversation links.
  6. 6The alert posts to the on-call Slack channel, deduped so the same spike isn't re-alerted within the cooldown window.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect IntercomConversations, contacts, articles.
  2. 2
    Connect PostgresAny Postgres URL — query, write, migrate.
  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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