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A trigger decides when an automation runs. Each automation has 1 to 10 triggers, and any of them starts a run. You can also start a run by hand with Run now or Test.

Add a trigger

In the automation editor, click Add trigger and pick an event. If the tool is not connected, the trigger card shows Connect. Approve access in the pop-up window and return to the editor. Your draft stays open. If your workspace has more than one connection for the tool, choose one under Choose a workspace. Then pick the channels or projects to watch. Use Refresh channels or Refresh projects if a new one is missing.

Slack

Pick up to 50 channels. To watch a private channel, invite the Superlog app to it first. Superlog ignores messages from its own app. Alerts that other tools post to Slack, such as Datadog, PostHog, Sentry, or CloudWatch notifications, start runs. Recovery and resolved notifications from those tools are ignored. While a run is active, Superlog posts a live progress card in the thread that started it. When someone replies in that thread, the reply continues the same run instead of starting a new one.

Sentry

Pick up to 100 projects. The run is titled with the Sentry short ID and issue title, and the agent receives the issue details.

Discord

The command takes an optional context option. Its text is passed to the agent with the trigger:
/automate starts every active automation that watches the channel. Discord replies only to the person who ran the command, with Automation started. or a message saying that no automation is configured for the channel. Results are not posted back to Discord. Add a Slack connector or a GitHub repository so the agent can report somewhere.

Schedule

Schedules use the time zone shown on the trigger card, which defaults to your browser’s. If a scheduled run is missed by less than an hour, it still runs. Older missed runs are skipped. Scheduled automations can post each finished run to Slack. See Notifications.

Manual runs

Run now starts a run with no trigger event. Test opens a chat where your message is treated as the trigger event. Both need the automation to be active.