Anomaly Detection: GitHub + Slack
How fast do you hear when something breaks? askotter reads GitHub and Slack together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does anomaly detection with GitHub and Slack work for a small business?
askotter reads GitHub and Slack side by side so it can catch changes in your numbers within minutes. A text within minutes saying what changed, how serious it is and what to check first.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From GitHub
- Commits and pull requests, Deployment events, Release tags.
- From Slack
- Channel-based alert delivery, Routing by role, Interactive action buttons.
- Status
- Slack is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing GitHub or Slack. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How fast do you hear when something breaks?
Something shifted last Tuesday, and nobody noticed until Friday. By then you had lost five days of bookings. The data to catch it was there the whole time.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads GitHub and Slack side by side, so it can catch changes in your numbers within minutes.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our website design for small business work.
How GitHub and Slack records line up
GitHub and Slack share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in GitHub deployments can be read against what Slack recorded in the same hours.
What anomaly detection uses from each
Anomaly detection needs a steady daily series with a known normal range.
From GitHub that means deployment times to line up against metric breaks. From Slack it means the channel where alerts are delivered.
Slack is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
GitHub on its own
GitHub knows what code changed and when. It cannot tell you whether that change cost you leads or sales.
Timing. GitHub timestamps every commit, merge and deployment to the second.
Access. A GitHub App or token with read access to the repositories you choose.
Slack on its own
Slack records what the team said about the business and when. Sales, traffic and spend live in other tools.
Timing. Slack timestamps every message, which makes it a record of when the team noticed and decided things.
Access. A Slack app installed to the channels you choose.
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Questions about GitHub + Slack
Do I need a developer to connect GitHub and Slack?
How is askotter's Anomaly Detection different from what GitHub shows on its own?
GitHub + Slack is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.