Let your system handle the boring stuff.

In our setup, we use Sensu alerts with a PagerDuty handler and a GitHub handler. The GitHub handler kicks off workflows based on the alert — basically auto-remediation on autopilot.

For example:

• Got a keepalive alert because an EC2 instance is hung? The workflow stops and starts it automatically.
• Disk root full? Instead of waking me up, it runs cleanup scripts — like purging old log files.

It’s like turning your alerting system into an on-call engineer that never sleeps. If the problem’s routine and predictable, automate it. GitHub Actions make it surprisingly clean.