Incident response and hotfix
Alert fires, bug reproduced, patch and regression run ready; on-call approves, post-mortem already drafted.
Incident response and hotfix
- P1 alert: payments-api 5xx rate 6.8% (threshold 2%) since 14:02; INC-3312 opened
- Last 30 min of logs and traces pulled: NullPointer starts with the 14:01 deploy v2.14.1
- Reproduced: null currency field → PaymentMapper line 118, 3-line patch
- Plan: patch branch → regression → on-call approval → deploy → watch → post-mortem
- Branch hotfix/INC-3312 created, PR #2304: patch + regression test (+21 / −2)
- Regression: 1,284 tests passed, new test catches the bug, no side effects
- On-call engineer approved PR #2304 and the emergency deploy from Slack (4 min)
- v2.14.2 deployed to production; 5xx rate down to 0.1% within 6 min
- Post-mortem draft written to Confluence: detect 3 min, resolve 31 min, 5 actions
- Resolution summary posted to #incidents, INC-3312 set to "resolved"
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Grafana alert: 5xx rate > 2% on the payments API (PagerDuty P1)
Fix in production, error rate back to normal, incident record and post-mortem draft ready
Agents
Incident Supervisor
Decomposes the objective, delegates to agents, manages approval points, merges the result.
Developer Agent
Reads logs and traces, reproduces the bug, writes the patch
query_logsget_tracesreproduce_bugcreate_branchopen_pull_requestTester Agent
Runs the regression suite, checks the patch for side effects
run_testsrun_regressioncompare_baselineRelease Agent
Deploys the hotfix via ArgoCD, watches health
deploy_argocdcheck_healthrollbackPost-mortem Agent
Writes the timeline and root-cause draft
build_timelinedraft_postmortempublish_confluence_pagepost_slackSteps
| # | Kind | Agent | What happens | System | ms | tok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | ingest | Incident Supervisor | P1 alert: payments-api 5xx rate 6.8% (threshold 2%) since 14:02; INC-3312 opened | — | 160 | — |
| 02 | tool | Developer Agent | Last 30 min of logs and traces pulled: NullPointer starts with the 14:01 deploy v2.14.1 | Observability (Grafana / Datadog) | 620 | — |
| 03 | reason | Developer Agent | Reproduced: null currency field → PaymentMapper line 118, 3-line patch | — | 2,400 | 5,200 |
| 04 | plan | Incident Supervisor | Plan: patch branch → regression → on-call approval → deploy → watch → post-mortem | — | 260 | 200 |
| 05 | write | Developer Agent | Branch hotfix/INC-3312 created, PR #2304: patch + regression test (+21 / −2) | GitHub | 1,400 | 2,600 |
| 06 | verify | Tester Agent | Regression: 1,284 tests passed, new test catches the bug, no side effects | — | 3,000 | 800 |
| 07 | approval | Incident Supervisor | On-call engineer approved PR #2304 and the emergency deploy from Slack (4 min) | — | 3,600 | — |
| 08 | write | Release Agent | v2.14.2 deployed to production; 5xx rate down to 0.1% within 6 min | Kubernetes / ArgoCD | 2,800 | — |
| 09 | write | Post-mortem Agent | Post-mortem draft written to Confluence: detect 3 min, resolve 31 min, 5 actions | Confluence | 1,600 | 2,200 |
| 10 | notify | Post-mortem Agent | Resolution summary posted to #incidents, INC-3312 set to "resolved" | Slack | 300 | — |
Feature delivery pipeline
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CI/CD release pipeline
Build, tests, scans and staging run unattended; production ships only on release-manager approval, via ArgoCD.
Code review and security gate
Agents review, scan and coverage-check every PR; fixes land first, a human approves only clean PRs.
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