Inspiration
We live in Slack and we rely on PagerDuty to run our support. PagerDuty already has great Slack integration for receiving alerts and resolving them. However we often want to know who is the person rostered on for support right now when we need help, or who will be rostered on for support for a future event. So we built this Slack integration.
What it does
For the simplest use case, it will list which people are on call in PagerDuty right now for each escalation policy and level, along with the time that their shift will end, expressed in the time zone of the Slack user who requested the information.
It can also list the people on call for a given date and time in the future.
How I built it
It is simply node.js using the request
node module to call the PagerDuty API and moment-timezone
to translate schedules for the Slack user's timezone. serverless
is used to deploy the code to AWS Lambda.
Challenges I ran into
Using AWS KMS to decrypt API tokens when the Lambda function first starts is often too slow for the Slack 3-second timeout.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
It works!
What I learned
To use Slack delayed responses and perform tasks that take longer than 3-seconds involves calling another Lambda function to perform the extra work so the first function call can return within the limit.
What's next for PagerDuty OnCall Slack bot
Allowing users to request the PagerDuty schedule for only specific escalation policies or levels.
Built With
- aws-lambda
- javascript
- serverless
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