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How do you triage on call alerts before they page a human?

An on call AI Employee that works up a first pass diagnosis on every alert, pulling the stack trace, the recent deploys, and the correlated logs, posting it to the incident channel, and paging a named human only when it can't resolve the alert or the severity is high.

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When
Every alert, as it fires
Systems
Error trackingLogsGitHub
Mode
Read only, pages a named human only when needed
Problem

An alert fires at 3am. Before anyone can act on it, someone has to wake up, pull the stack trace, check what deployed recently, grep the logs, and work out whether this is a real incident or noise. Most of that is mechanical, and most of it happens before the human has any context: which error is this, when did it start, what shipped just before, is it one user or all of them. The on call engineer answers these by hand, half awake, before they can even judge whether the page was warranted. The common fixes are incomplete. Paging on every alert burns the on call rotation on noise and trains people to ignore the pager. Tuning thresholds cuts the noise but also hides real regressions. A runbook helps, but someone still has to be awake to follow it. None of it does the gathering for you.

What it does

Each alert triggers the on call AI Employee. When error tracking fires, the alert spawns a run in your own environment with read only access to the error tracker, the logs, and GitHub. It pulls the stack trace, lists the deploys since the error first appeared, correlates the logs around the spike, and posts a first pass diagnosis to the incident channel. It pages a named human only when it can't resolve the alert or the severity is high.

How it works

See exactly how the work gets done.

Runs on every alert, as it fires

A signed webhook from your error tracking points at it. Every alert fires it, and each firing spawns a fresh run seeded with the alert payload. One alert, one run, one clean slate. Nothing carries over between incidents, and concurrent alerts triage in parallel.

Carries your triage playbook

How you triage travels with it as a skill: which services are noisy, what a real regression looks like versus a known flake, the severity rules for when to page, and past incidents with their root causes. When an alert turns out benign, you write it down and it recognizes it next time.

Connects read only, with permissions you set

It reads the error issue (stack trace, frequency, and first seen timestamp) to place the error in time, pulls the log lines around the spike and lines them up against the trace, checks the commits and PRs that shipped just before on GitHub, and posts the diagnosis, the suspected deploy, and the evidence to the incident channel as one message. Credentials stay in memory, never written to disk or exposed to the model.

Read only, it never deploys or rolls back

It investigates across the error tracker, the logs, and GitHub, but it does not deploy, roll back, or change anything. High severity alerts and anything it can't resolve page a named human straight away. The diagnosis is attached, not a substitute for the page.

Pages with the work already done

The trace, the deploy window, the correlated logs, and a first pass diagnosis land in the channel within the first minute. A known benign spike is closed with the reasoning attached. A high severity or unresolved alert pages the on call engineer with the work already done, so they open the page to context instead of a blank terminal.

Guardrails

Runs in your environment

Every alert runs isolated inside your own infrastructure, pulling traces, logs, and deploy history to build the diagnosis; only the posted message and any page leave it. Your data never leaves it.

Permissions you set

The error tracking, logging, and GitHub credentials stay in memory, injected at run time, never exposed to the model or the logs.

Read only, never acts

It never deploys, rolls back, or changes anything. High severity and unresolved alerts page a named human, who owns any action taken.

Diagnosis attached, never a substitute

A page still goes to a person whenever it's warranted. The AI Employee gathers the context; it does not decide the fix or silence a real regression.

You own the rules

The triage playbook, the severity rules, the skills, and the permissions are yours, versioned and changed on your terms, not in a vendor dashboard.

The outcome

The mechanical first minutes of an incident happen before anyone is paged, and when the AI Employee does page, it pages with the trace, the suspect deploy, and the correlated logs attached. The on call engineer spends their time deciding and fixing rather than gathering context half awake.

First pass

Diagnosis in the channel before the pager fires

Less noise

Benign alerts closed with reasoning, not paged

3 systems

Error tracking, logs, and deploy history in one AI Employee

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How do you triage on call alerts before they page a human? | YP AI