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Create a PagerDuty alert when a workflow fails

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Notifications System

This system flow will create a PagerDuty alert anytime a workflow in a company namespace (or any nested child namespace) fails.

Using this pattern, you can get alerts for Kestra workflow execution failures alongside other alerts on PagerDuty.

You can customize that system flow by modifying the task, adding more tasks to the flow or adjusting the trigger conditions. Read more about that pattern in the Administrator Guide.

Let's create a flow in the namespace with prefix company that will always fail.

yaml
id: failure_flow
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: always_fails
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.execution.Fail

Whenever you run the failure_flow, it will trigger an execution of the create_pagerduty_alert_on_failure flow. As a result, an alert will be created on PagerDuty so that prompt action can be taken.

yaml
id: create_pagerduty_alert_on_failure
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: create_pagerduty_alert
    type: io.kestra.plugin.notifications.pagerduty.PagerDutyExecution
    url: "{{ secret('PAGERDUTY_EVENT') }}" # format: https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue
    payloadSummary: "Kestra Workflow Failure: {{ trigger.executionId }} has failed on {{ taskrun.startDate }}"
    deduplicationKey: "dedupkey"
    routingKey: "routingkey"
    eventAction: "trigger"
    executionId: "{{ trigger.executionId }}"

triggers:
  - id: on_failure
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.trigger.Flow
    conditions:
      - type: io.kestra.plugin.core.condition.ExecutionStatusCondition
        in:
          - FAILED
          - WARNING
      - type: io.kestra.plugin.core.condition.ExecutionNamespaceCondition
        namespace: company
        comparison: PREFIX

Pager Duty Execution

Flow

Execution Status Condition

Execution Namespace Condition

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