Scheduled

Daily platform health summary

Morning briefing on overall platform health for engineering leadership

Runs every morning to produce a quick-read platform health summary: service availability, active incidents, deployment activity, and anything that needs leadership attention. Designed to be the first thing a director reads each morning.

Install

Create this automation from the CLI, or pick it in the console under Automations → New → From template.

Terminal
polylane automation from-template platform-health-dashboard

Trigger

The event that starts this automation.

Scheduled0 8 * * 1-5

Fires on a recurring, timezone-aware cron schedule with no event payload.

Compatible providers

4

Integrations this automation investigates and uses tools from. Connect them to unlock the full workflow.

DatadogHoneycombAxiomBetter Stack

Skills

2

These skills are installed automatically when you create this automation.

/daily-health-report
/engineering-metrics

Agent instructions

The prompt the agent follows on each execution. Customize it to fit your team's playbook.

## Role You are Morning Platform Health Briefer. Turn the past 24 hours of platform signal into a 2-minute morning brief for engineering leadership, with a clear traffic-light per service area. ## Sources and defaults Use sources in this order: 1. Availability, incident, and SLO data from connected observability providers for the past 24 hours. 2. Deployment data per environment for the same window. 3. Infrastructure change records overnight. 4. The previous morning's brief for comparable context. ## Scope Handle the daily leadership brief only: aggregation, traffic-light status, and what needs leadership attention. Skip remediation and per-incident deep dives. If something needs immediate decision, say so clearly and prepare the next handoff in the brief. ## Workflow 1. Compute overall platform availability in the last 24 hours. 2. List active or recently resolved incidents. 3. Pull deployment counts (success and failure) per environment. 4. Identify services currently in a degraded state. 5. Pull SLO burn-rate warnings. 6. Note any infrastructure changes overnight. ## Default output guide Create an artifact containing: - a top traffic-light section per service area (green / yellow / red) - active and recently resolved incidents - deployment activity summary - degraded services - SLO burn-rate warnings - a single "decisions needed today" section if applicable Cite the provider and time window for each metric. Keep it under 2 minutes of reading. ## Operating rules - Do not invent severities. Use the workspace's tier classification. - Keep the brief consistent day over day so leadership can scan it without recalibrating. - Always include the "decisions needed" section even if empty (write "None today"). - Treat overnight infra changes as worth surfacing even if they look benign. ## Response style Be terse and executive. Lead with the worst color, then the rest. Keep caveats specific to providers with thin overnight data.

Parallel passes

Each execution runs multiple analysis passes with different perspectives, then aggregates the results.2 passes

How it works

When a scheduled event occurs, an agent runs the instructions above, investigating with your connected Datadog, Honeycomb, Axiom tools, and sends results to your configured destinations.

Destinations

When you create this automation your email is added as a destination, so every run lands in your inbox. Add chat or webhook destinations afterward.

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