Actionist·Airbrake
Airbrake

Airbrake

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Monitor, triage, and resolve application errors before they reach your users

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Airbrake is an error monitoring and performance management platform that captures exceptions, deploy events, and performance traces across web, mobile, and backend applications. It groups recurring errors, tracks their frequency across deploys, and surfaces stack traces, request metadata, and breadcrumb trails so engineering teams can reproduce and fix bugs fast. Connect Airbrake to Actionist and your agents can query error groups, retrieve notice details, track deploys, manage error state, pull project stats, and route critical failures to the right teams — all without anyone logging into the Airbrake dashboard.

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Average time saved
6 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycles of opening Airbrake dashboards to triage errors, looking up stack traces for support tickets, and compiling weekly error health reports by hand.

Schedule

What your Airbrake agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
24/7Always on
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Multi-app workflows

Airbrake × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
6Apps spanned
~24 hrsSaved / week
4Personas served
For engineering
Featured4 apps

Deploy fires, new errors surface within the hour

Every production deploy is recorded in Airbrake and the agent watches for regressions. New error groups that appear within an hour of the deploy are surfaced to #engineering with the exact commit SHA — the releasing engineer has regression visibility within about a minute of the first exception, not after a customer complaint.

~8 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a production deploy completes in GitHub Actions
Trigger
Step 1
GitHub
Detect deployment status: success event for production environment
write
Step 2
Airbrake
Track Deploy with commit SHA, environment, deployer, and repository URL
read
Step 3
Airbrake
List Error Groups created after the deploy timestamp
write
Step 4
Slack
Post any new post-deploy error groups to #engineering with deploy reference
write
Step 5
Notion
Append deploy and error-correlation summary to the release log
Result
Track Deploy with commit SHA, environment, deployer, and repository URLPost any new post-deploy error groups to #engineering with deploy referenceAppend deploy and error-correlation summary to the release log
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~10×
Regression detection in minutes, not days
Driven byOperations Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    45 min / week
    Manual Airbrake check before each customer call

    Sales engineers log into Airbrake before each customer call to check whether known issues affect the customer's environment — copying error messages and counts into a notes doc by hand.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent posts customer-facing error summary to #sales-engineering every Monday

    The Sales Agent lists all open error groups in customer-facing projects and posts a ranked summary before the first Monday calls — no dashboard login needed.

  • Marketing
    30 min / week
    Broken landing pages discovered after conversion drops

    Broken JavaScript on landing pages or campaign forms is discovered when conversion drops — often days after the bug was introduced, after ad spend has been wasted.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent checks marketing project error groups before paid campaigns run

    The Marketing Agent lists all unresolved error groups on the marketing site every Monday before paid traffic goes live, so broken forms are fixed before ad spend is wasted.

  • Customer Support
    60 min / week
    Support engineer waits for engineering to look up the error

    When a customer describes an error, the support engineer files an internal request and waits for an engineer to look it up in Airbrake and paste back the stack trace — adding hours to first response.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent enriches support ticket with stack trace within about a minute

    The Support Agent searches Airbrake for a matching error group the moment a ticket arrives and posts the stack trace, occurrence count, and affected environments directly into the ticket.

  • Human Resources
    20 min / week
    HR system errors discovered through employee complaints

    Bugs in payroll, benefits, or time-off portals are typically discovered when employees report them — often on payroll day — with no prior visibility into error patterns.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags HR system errors 24 hours before payroll processing window

    The HR Agent searches for unresolved errors in the payroll integration project every Wednesday morning and alerts the payroll administrator the day before the processing window.

  • Finance
    60 min / week
    Payment exceptions surface in customer complaints or bank reconciliation

    Payment processing errors are discovered after customers complain about failed charges or during manual bank reconciliation — sometimes days after the exception first occurred.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent escalates payment error groups to the payments team within about a minute of detection

    The Finance Agent checks payment project error groups every Monday before business opens and triggers an immediate alert with full error context when a payment exception appears.

  • Operations
    90 min / week
    Weekly error queue review requires manual Airbrake dashboard sessions

    The engineering operations lead opens Airbrake for each production project, manually counts new and resolved error groups, and copies the numbers into a spreadsheet for the weekly report.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent compiles cross-project error health scorecard automatically every Friday

    The Operations Agent pulls project stats for all production projects and writes the complete weekly error health scorecard to the engineering metrics dashboard — no manual dashboard visits.

  • Legal
    30 min / week
    Compliance-relevant errors reviewed retrospectively before audits

    Auth and data-handling errors are only reviewed when an audit is upcoming — legal counsel manually searches Airbrake for relevant error types and compiles a list with no structured documentation.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent reviews auth errors weekly and documents findings on each Airbrake error group

    The Legal Agent searches for authentication and data-handling error groups each week, checks notices for PII signals, and adds a compliance comment directly on each Airbrake error group.

+ 100s of other Airbrake automations
Average time saved
34 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
8 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
12
Hours saved / year
600
Annual ROI
$45,000

Based on Airbrake's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Airbrake into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path to Airbrake. Generate a Project API Key from your Airbrake project settings and paste it into Actionist — the agent can read error groups, notices, and project stats within seconds.

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Open your Airbrake project

Log in to Airbrake, select the project you want to connect, and go to Settings → API Keys.

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Copy the Project API Key and Project ID

Copy the Project Key (not the User Key) and note your numeric Project ID from the page URL.

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Paste into Actionist

Enter both values in the Actionist connection form and click Test connection. The agent runs a read-only call to list error groups and confirms the handshake.

Credentials you'll need
Project API Key*
Airbrake dashboard → Settings → Project → API Keys → Project Key
Project ID*
Your numeric Airbrake Project ID — visible in the project URL and API Keys page
Actions

14 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
MCP servers

MCP servers that work with Airbrake

Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.

Airbrake MCP Server

Query Airbrake errors, notices, deploys, and project stats from MCP clients

FAQs

Questions about Airbrake + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Airbrake?
Go to the Apps tab, find Airbrake, and click Connect. The recommended path is a Project API Key — log in to Airbrake, select your project, go to Settings → API Keys, copy the Project Key (the longer of the two keys on the page), and enter it along with your numeric Project ID in Actionist. The agent runs a read-only List Error Groups call to confirm the handshake before any actions run. If you prefer MCP, the open-source Airbrake MCP server (io.github.dach3r/airbrake-mcp-server) is also supported.
What permissions does the Airbrake agent need?
For read-only operations (listing error groups, fetching notice details, pulling project stats, viewing deploy history) the Project API Key is sufficient. For write operations (tracking deploys, resolving error groups, muting groups, adding comments, uploading source maps, creating error notices) you need a key with write access — a Project Key generated by an account owner or admin. If your Airbrake plan restricts API access, check Settings → Subscription to confirm API access is included in your tier.
Can the agent monitor multiple Airbrake projects at once?
Yes. You can configure one connection per Airbrake project, each with its own Project ID and API Key, and build agent tasks that cycle through each connection. The List Projects action retrieves all projects in the account using a user-level key, so a single connection can enumerate your project inventory. For monitoring, each project's error groups are fetched individually — the agent can process them sequentially in a single scheduled agent task.
How does Actionist handle Airbrake error notifications?
Airbrake supports outbound webhooks that POST to a URL when a new error occurs or a resolved error re-occurs. Actionist agents can also poll Airbrake's API on a regular cadence — checking for new error groups within about a minute of each polling cycle. For near-time alerting, configure the agent to run a List Error Groups check every few minutes on a schedule and compare against the previous state. For webhook-push delivery, you can point Airbrake's webhook setting to an endpoint and have the agent process the incoming payload.
Can I use Actionist to auto-resolve Airbrake errors when a GitHub PR is merged?
Yes — this is one of the most popular Airbrake automations. Set up an agent task that triggers when a pull request is merged in GitHub and checks the PR description or labels for an Airbrake error group ID. The agent calls Resolve Error Group with that ID and optionally adds a comment with the PR URL. The error queue stays accurate without anyone manually resolving groups after each deploy. The same pattern works with Jira, Linear, or any issue tracker where the ticket can carry the Airbrake group reference.
What is the difference between an Airbrake error group and a notice?
An error group (shown as 'Errors' in the Airbrake web app) is a deduplicated bucket of all occurrences of the same exception class — same error type, same message, same stack trace fingerprint. A notice is a single occurrence within that group: one actual exception thrown at one moment in time, with its own request parameters, session data, and environment snapshot. Most automation tasks operate on error groups (triaging, resolving, muting, commenting); fetching notice details is used when you need to extract specific request context — like which user triggered the error or what payload was sent.
Does source map upload work for all Airbrake plans?
Source map upload is available on Airbrake's paid plans. The Upload Source Map action sends the source map file to Airbrake's API tagged with your project ID, environment, and commit revision. For the deminification to work, the source map must be uploaded with the same revision identifier used in your Track Deploy call — Airbrake matches the two by revision. If you upload a source map without a corresponding deploy event, Airbrake applies it to all stack traces for the project rather than scoping it to a specific release.
Can Actionist combine Airbrake with other tools in the same workflow?
Yes — Airbrake is most powerful when combined with the tools where errors need to surface. Common pairings: GitHub (resolve error group when PR merges, track deploy after CI passes), Slack (post ranked error digest to #engineering), Notion or Google Sheets (write weekly error health scorecard), Zendesk or Intercom (enrich support ticket with matching Airbrake stack trace), and Jira or Linear (create a ticket from an error group with full details). Any of Actionist's 200+ connected apps can send or receive data alongside Airbrake in the same agent task.