Root Cause Analysis: GitHub + Slack
Why did this number change? askotter reads GitHub and Slack together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with GitHub and Slack work for a small business?
askotter reads GitHub and Slack side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind it.
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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.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads GitHub and Slack side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
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 root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From GitHub that means the commit and deploy closest to when a metric moved. From Slack it means incident threads and their timestamps.
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 Root Cause Analysis different from what GitHub shows on its own?
GitHub + Slack is coming soon
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