FDE Playbook
SaaS & IT OperationsSaaS company · 400 engineers · 1,500 alerts a week
Always-On SaaS Operations Agent
Customer brief
A SaaS company wants an always-on agent that triages alerts, gathers logs, summarises likely causes for the on-call engineer and handles routine fixes. Production changes are tightly controlled.
Discovery questions
Ask these before designing a solution.
- 1Which alerts are noisy or routine?
- 2What does on-call do first for each alert type?
- 3Which fixes are scripted runbooks?
- 4What change controls apply to production?
- 5Where are logs and metrics stored?
Constraints
- No unapproved production changes
- Least-privilege access to infrastructure
- All actions logged
- Prompt injection risk from log and ticket content
Requirements
- Read-only investigation tools
- Runbook actions behind approval
- Incident summary posted to the on-call channel
- Audit log of every action
- Evaluation on past incidents
FDE Simulator
Decision 1 of 3
Access
What access does the agent get?