DrDroid: How AI SRE Helps Engineers who are on-call for production monitoring

Day 0 — Incident Response & Firefighting

Something is broken right now. You need answers fast.

#	Your Task	How Doctor Droid Helps You
1	"Our API latency spiked, what changed?"	Ask the agent — it pulls recent deployments from ArgoCD/GitHub Actions, checks Grafana/Datadog metrics, and shows you what changed around the time latency spiked. No need to open 5 tabs.
2	"Which pods are crashing in production?"	Ask the agent — it lists failing pods, pulls their logs, shows recent K8s events, and surfaces restart counts. You get a full picture in one response.
3	"Is the database the bottleneck?"	Ask the agent — it runs slow query analysis on your Postgres/MySQL, checks connection pool usage, and correlates with application error rates from Datadog or New Relic.
4	"I got paged, what's actually going on?"	The agent auto-investigates when an alert fires. By the time you open it, there's already a summary with metrics, logs, and likely root cause pulled from your connected sources.
5	"Are other services affected too?"	Ask the agent — it checks health across your connected sources (Grafana, CloudWatch, K8s, Datadog) and tells you which services are degraded vs healthy.
6	"I need to check CloudWatch logs for this error"	Tell the agent the error pattern and time range — it queries CloudWatch Logs, Loki, or Elasticsearch directly and returns matching entries. No console login needed.
7	"Run this PromQL/NRQL query for me"	Give the agent your query — it executes against Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog and returns results inline. Great for quick checks during incidents.
8	"SSH into the box and check disk space"	Tell the agent the command — it runs Bash commands on remote hosts via SSH and returns output. No need to find the SSH key or remember the hostname. Works even when you don’t have laptop access.
9	"Notify the team on Slack about this outage"	Tell the agent what to post and where — it sends a formatted message to your Slack channel with the context you provide.
10	"Escalate this to PagerDuty"	The agent creates or escalates a PagerDuty/OpsGenie incident based on the investigation findings. You don't need to context-switch to the PagerDuty UI.
11	"Create a JIRA ticket for the post-mortem"	Tell the agent the summary — it creates a JIRA ticket with the incident details, investigation findings, and relevant links.
12	"Did the last deploy cause this?"	Ask the agent — it checks the latest GitHub PR merges, Jenkins builds, ArgoCD sync status, and correlates timestamps with when the issue started.
13	"Roll back the deployment"	Tell the agent to trigger a rollback pipeline — it kicks off the Jenkins build or GitHub Actions workflow you specify.
14	"Check if this API endpoint is responding"	Give the agent the URL — it makes an HTTP call and tells you the status code, response time, and body. Works for any internal API.

Day 1 — Operational Tasks & Maintenance

No fire, but you need to keep things running smoothly.

#	Your Task	How Doctor Droid Helps You
1	"What's the current state of our K8s cluster?"	Ask the agent — it shows pod status across namespaces, node resource usage, recent events, and any pods in CrashLoopBackOff or Pending state.
2	"Are all our data sources healthy?"	The agent tests connectivity to every configured connector every 10 seconds. Ask it for the current status, or set up Slack alerts for failures.
3	"Show me all Grafana dashboards we have"	Ask the agent — it returns the full inventory of dashboards, datasources, and folders it auto-discovered. Same for Datadog monitors, K8s resources, DB schemas, etc.
4	"How big are our database tables getting?"	Ask the agent to run a table size query on your Postgres/MySQL/ClickHouse — it returns sizes, row counts, and index usage.
5	"Any slow queries running right now?"	Ask the agent — it checks pg_stat_activity or equivalent on your database and shows long-running queries with their duration and state.
6	"Check if our Jenkins pipelines are green"	Ask the agent — it pulls recent build status from Jenkins and tells you which jobs passed, failed, or are stuck.
7	"Is our ArgoCD app in sync?"	Ask the agent — it checks sync status and health for your ArgoCD applications. Flags any that are out-of-sync or degraded.
8	"Pull logs from the payment service for the last hour"	Tell the agent the service and time range — it queries Loki, CloudWatch, or Elasticsearch and returns the logs. No need to remember log group names.
9	"What GitHub PRs were merged today?"	Ask the agent — it queries your GitHub repos and lists merged PRs with authors, titles, and timestamps.
10	"Trigger a build for the staging environment"	Tell the agent which Jenkins job or GitHub Actions workflow to run — it triggers it and reports back the status.
11	"Send a daily cluster health report to Slack"	Set up a scheduled playbook — the agent runs K8s health checks daily and posts a summary to your Slack channel automatically.
12	"Check MongoDB replica set health"	Ask the agent — it runs the appropriate commands against your MongoDB instance and returns replica set status and lag.
13	"List all CloudWatch alarms in ALARM state"	Ask the agent — it queries CloudWatch and returns currently firing alarms with their metric details and thresholds.
14	"What Datadog monitors are in alert?"	Ask the agent — it checks your Datadog monitors and lists any that are currently alerting or warning.
15	"Run this custom SQL query on production"	Give the agent the query — it executes against your connected Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse, or BigQuery and returns results as a table.
16	"Check disk and memory on our VMs"	Tell the agent to run df -h and free -m via Bash — it SSHs in and returns the output.
17	"Update this JIRA ticket with today's progress"	Tell the agent the ticket ID and comment — it adds the update to JIRA without you opening the browser.
18	"What new resources were created in our K8s cluster this week?"	Ask the agent — it compares the current asset inventory with the previous discovery and highlights new pods, services, or deployments.

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Day 2 — Automation, Optimization & Reliability

You want to stop doing repetitive things and build resilience.

#	Your Task	How Doctor Droid Helps You
1	"Automate our incident response runbook"	Build a runbook as per your internal process: when alert fires → pull metrics from Grafana → check K8s pods → query DB → post findings to Slack. Runs automatically on every alert.
2	"Auto-restart pods when OOM detected"	Set up a workflow: if K8s event shows OOMKilled → restart the pod → notify on Slack → log to JIRA. No human in the loop.
3	"Scale up when CPU crosses 80%"	Create a conditional workflow: check CPU metrics from Prometheus/CloudWatch → if above threshold → trigger scaling via K8s or API call → confirm on Slack.
4	"Track our SLOs across services"	Set up scheduled playbooks that query Prometheus or Datadog for error rate and latency → calculate against SLO targets → post weekly reports to Slack.
5	"Alert me before we hit our error budget"	Build a workflow that checks error budget consumption daily → if > 80% consumed → post warning to Slack and create a JIRA ticket.
6	"Correlate deploys with performance changes"	Set up a playbook that triggers after every deploy → compares pre/post metrics from Grafana/Datadog → flags regressions automatically.
7	"Stop SSHing into boxes for the same checks"	Convert your common SSH commands into playbooks — disk space, process checks, log tailing. Run them from Doctor Droid with one click or on schedule.
8	"I keep opening 5 dashboards for the same investigation"	Build a single playbook that queries all 5 sources and gives you a combined view. Next time, ask the agent instead of opening dashboards.
9	"Validate infrastructure after every Terraform apply"	Set up a post-deploy playbook: check K8s resources → verify CloudWatch alarms exist → test endpoints → report pass/fail.
10	"Audit our K8s RBAC and network policies weekly"	Schedule a playbook that lists RBAC bindings and network policies → compares against expected state → flags drift on Slack.
11	"Auto-create a JIRA ticket when a deploy fails"	Build a workflow: monitor Jenkins/GitHub Actions → if build fails → create JIRA ticket with build logs and assign to the team.
12	"Map out which services talk to which"	Enable Network Mapper — it discovers service-to-service communication in K8s and shows you the dependency graph.
13	"Check if our Datadog monitors match our runbook"	Ask the agent to list all Datadog monitors — compare with your documented expectations. Set this up as a weekly drift check.
14	"Reduce alert fatigue for the team"	Use alert grouping and conditional workflows — similar alerts get grouped, only actionable ones reach Slack/PagerDuty.
15	"Automate capacity reporting for leadership"	Schedule a monthly playbook: query CloudWatch/K8s for resource trends → query BigQuery for cost data → format and send via email or Slack.
16	"Clear application cache when memory exceeds threshold"	Build a workflow: check memory metrics → if above limit → make API call to flush cache → verify memory dropped → notify on Slack.
17	"Run synthetic health checks every 5 minutes"	Schedule a playbook that hits your critical endpoints via HTTP, checks response codes and latency, and alerts on Slack if anything degrades.
18	"Onboard new services faster"	When a new service deploys, the agent auto-discovers it in K8s, finds its Grafana dashboards and Datadog monitors, and catalogs everything. You see it in your inventory immediately.

What's Next?

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