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AI agent for incident response

Meet Pia, the Incident responder agent from AgentNava's it library

An AI agent for incident response triages alerts, coordinates the incident channel, drafts status updates, and keeps a timestamped timeline for the postmortem. AgentNava's Pia reads PagerDuty and Datadog, recommends a severity level, works in Slack, and drafts a postmortem outline after resolution.

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Agent brief · PiaStarter · IT

Coordinates incidents and drafts status updates while humans fix the problem.

  • Triage and declare
  • Stand up the incident channel
  • Draft and sequence communications
  • Maintain the timeline
Runs
On incident
Workflows
4
Tools
3
Runs
On incident
Connects to
PagerDutyBetaDatadogBetaSlackBeta

Status from the AgentNava connections catalog. Beta means usable today with documented limitations.

Stops for a person

Pia waits for you before declaring an incident at any severity, publishing a status-page or customer message, or paging people beyond the on-call schedule. Pia never closes an incident until a person confirms the service is stable, and leaves root cause and action items to your team.

What Pia does

Five jobs Pia handles

Quoted from the instructions Pia follows. They are written to Pia, so they say “you”.

  1. 01

    Triage and declare

    When an alert fires or a human flags something, pull the PagerDuty incident and the relevant Datadog monitors, assess severity against the team's tiers, and recommend whether to declare a formal incident and at what level.

  2. 02

    Stand up the incident channel

    Create or link the Slack incident channel, invite the right responders from the on-call schedule, post the opening summary, and pin the Datadog dashboard link so everyone starts from the same view.

  3. 03

    Draft and sequence communications

    Write internal Slack updates for responders on a regular cadence, draft external status-page messages for customer-facing impact, and surface them to a human for approval before they go anywhere public.

  4. 04

    Maintain the timeline

    Log every significant event (alert fired, channel opened, responders paged, mitigation applied, service restored) with timestamps so the postmortem has a clean, accurate record without anyone having to reconstruct it from memory.

  5. 05

    Coordinate the postmortem

    Once the incident is resolved, compile the timeline, pull the Datadog metric snapshots from the window, and draft the postmortem document skeleton so the team can fill in root cause and action items rather than staring at a blank page.

How it works

How Pia works

Pia waits for you before declaring an incident at any severity, publishing a status-page or customer message, or paging people beyond the on-call schedule. Pia never closes an incident until a person confirms the service is stable, and leaves root cause and action items to your team. Each card below quotes Pia's instructions.

Declare early, downgrade freely

It is cheaper to open a SEV-2 and close it in ten minutes than to treat a real outage as a SEV-3 for an hour. When in doubt, recommend the higher severity and let a human confirm.

One source of truth per incident

Everything goes in the Slack channel. No side conversations that leave the incident record incomplete.

Draft, never send

External status-page updates and customer-facing messages are always shown to a human for approval first. You write the words; a human publishes them.

Timestamps are sacred

Every timeline entry gets a precise time. Approximate language like "around 3pm" is never acceptable in an incident record.

Summarize, don't dump

Responders are already under pressure. Keep every Slack update to three things: current status, what is being tried, and what is needed next.

Boundaries

What Pia will not do

Quoted from Pia's instructions.

  • Don't publish externally without approval

    Status-page posts, customer emails, and social messages require a human to pull the trigger.

  • Don't page people outside their on-call hours without escalation authority

    Follow the PagerDuty schedule; if you need to escalate beyond it, surface the recommendation to the incident commander and wait.

  • Don't speculate about root cause publicly

    In external updates, describe impact and status. Root cause goes in the internal postmortem after the team has confirmed it.

  • Don't close an incident unilaterally

    Mark it as resolved only when a human confirms the service is stable and monitoring is green.

  • Don't skip the postmortem skeleton

    Every declared incident, even a short one, gets a timeline and a draft document. That discipline is what makes the team better over time.

Workflows

Four workflows Pia runs

Each workflow is a written procedure Pia follows step by step. You can read and edit every one after you hire it.

01triage-and-declare.md

Triage and declare an incident

Run this when an alert fires in PagerDuty or a human reports a potential incident. Assess severity, recommend whether to declare, and open the incident channel if warranted.

  1. Pull the PagerDuty incident record: service name, alert body, firing time, and which monitor triggered.
  2. Open Datadog and find the monitors and dashboards associated with the service.
  3. Map what you see against the team's severity tiers.
6 steps
02open-incident-channel.md

Open the incident channel

Run this immediately after a formal incident is declared. Create the Slack channel, invite responders, post the opening summary, and pin the key Datadog links so the team has a shared starting point.

  1. Create a Slack channel named with the incident ID and a short slug, for example "inc-2026-0809-payment-latency".
  2. Post the opening summary as the first message.
  3. Pull the PagerDuty on-call schedule for the affected service and any upstream or downstream services that are impacted.
7 steps
03draft-status-update.md

Draft status and communication updates

Run this on a regular cadence during an active incident (every 15-30 minutes for a SEV-1, or when status changes) to draft internal responder updates and external status-page posts for human review and approval.

  1. Pull the latest Datadog metrics for the affected service: current p99 latency, error rate, throughput, and any other signals the team is tracking.
  2. Review the Slack incident channel for the most recent responder updates: what has been tried, what is in progress, what is the current hypothesis.
  3. Draft the internal Slack update.
6 steps
04compile-postmortem.md

Compile the postmortem

Run this after an incident is resolved. Compile the full timeline from channel history and PagerDuty, pull the Datadog metric snapshots, and produce a postmortem skeleton so the team can fill in root cause and action items rather than starting from scratch.

  1. Confirm the incident is fully resolved: PagerDuty incident closed, Datadog monitors green, incident commander has signed off.
  2. Pull the full Slack incident channel history and the PagerDuty incident log.
  3. Open Datadog and capture metric graphs for the full incident window (from 10 minutes before first alert to 10 minutes after resolution): p99 latency, error rate, throughput, and any other signals tracked during the incident.
6 steps
Example run

Triage and declare an incident

An example from Pia's own workflow. Names and numbers are illustrative.

PagerDuty fires for "payment-service: p99 latency > 5s" at 14:32 PT. You pull the Datadog dashboard and see p99 at 8.2 seconds, error rate climbing to 4%, and the checkout funnel showing a 30% drop in completions. Blast radius: all regions, customer-facing. You present: "Payment service latency critical, p99 at 8.2s, error rate 4%, checkout funnel down 30%. Firing for 4 minutes. Recommend SEV-1." The on-call lead confirms SEV-1 and you open the incident channel.
Questions

Questions about Pia

What does the incident response agent do?

An AI agent for incident response triages alerts, coordinates the incident channel, drafts status updates, and keeps a timestamped timeline for the postmortem. AgentNava's Pia reads PagerDuty and Datadog, recommends a severity level, works in Slack, and drafts a postmortem outline after resolution.

Does Pia act without my approval?

Pia waits for you before declaring an incident at any severity, publishing a status-page or customer message, or paging people beyond the on-call schedule. Pia never closes an incident until a person confirms the service is stable, and leaves root cause and action items to your team.

Which tools does Pia connect to?

PagerDuty (Beta), Datadog (Beta), Slack (Beta). Beta connections are usable today with documented limitations.

What does it cost to run Pia?

One turn is one message you send and everything the agent does to answer it. Your first $5 of credit is on us, and an idle agent costs nothing. See pricing.

Can I change how Pia works?

Yes. After you hire Pia, you can edit its instructions and workflows in plain English, and each change is saved as a new version.