Create Your First Runbook
Automate incident response actions and provide step-by-step guidance for responders.
Runbooks automate incident response actions and provide step-by-step guidance for responders.
Before you begin
AI SRE access: A Harness project with AI SRE enabled. Go to the AI SRE onboarding guide to review prerequisites.
Integrated tools: Runbook actions call your connected tools. Go to Integrate Your First Tool to connect them first.
Incident types: To attach a runbook to a trigger, define an incident type first. Go to Set Up Your First Incident Type to create one.
Create a runbook
Create the runbook
Create a new runbook and give it a name:
Navigate to Runbooks from the left pane
Click on New Runbook
Fill the creation form with the details:
Fill in the runbook details
Click on Save
Add the first action
Add an action from the available categories:
Click on New Action
Select the action from the categories you want to add in your runbook. The actions have been classified into different categories based on the use case
Select the action:
Select the action
Click on Select
Configure the action
Set the details for the action you selected:
Fill the details for the selected action
Click on Save
Add more actions
Once saved, you can add more actions:
Click on New Action
Then, Select Action and repeat the steps and save
Add triggers (optional)
Additionally, you can add triggers for your runbooks. Click on Triggers (this step is optional).
Click on New Trigger
Select the Incident type from the dropdown with which you want to attach the runbook
Define the condition of the trigger
Click on Save from the top right
Automate response actions and guide responders step-by-step during incidents.
Next steps
Go to Expression Languages to learn about CEL and Mustache for dynamic content.
Go to Create Runbooks for advanced runbook configuration.
Go to Configure Runbook Triggers to automate runbook execution.
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