Automation Engine
Approval-gated playbooks and scheduled operations for infrastructure teams
OrcaMonitor's automation engine lets your team encode operational knowledge into reusable playbooks — runbooks that can be triggered manually, on a schedule, or by AI agent proposal — always with human approval gates before any action executes.
Automation in OrcaMonitor is deliberate, not autonomous. Every playbook is scoped, versioned, and approval-gated. The engine keeps a full execution log so you always know what ran, when, who approved it, and what the outcome was.
Key Features
What Automation Engine does for your team
Playbook Builder
Define multi-step playbooks with sequential or conditional branching steps: SSH commands, REST API calls, device restarts, service restarts, and more.
Approval Gate Steps
Insert human-approval checkpoints anywhere in a playbook. Execution pauses and notifies the approver before the next step runs.
Schedule & Recurrence
Run playbooks on a cron schedule for routine tasks like backup verification, certificate checks, and health polling.
Dry Run Mode
Simulate any playbook execution to preview what actions would be taken, against which devices, without actually making any changes.
Execution Audit Log
Every execution creates an immutable audit record: initiator, approval chain, step-by-step output, duration, and exit status.
AI-Triggered Playbooks
AI agents can propose playbook execution as a remediation action. The proposal is reviewed and approved before the engine runs it.
Platform Capabilities
- Variable injection for dynamic device targeting
- Rollback step definitions for reversible actions
- Concurrent execution limits to prevent runaway automation
- Notification hooks on start, approval request, and completion
- Version history for all playbook definitions
- Import/export playbooks as YAML for source-control integration
Deployment
All playbook definitions, execution history, and credential references are stored in your dedicated cloud instance. SSH credentials and API keys are held in the encrypted credential vault.
Related Modules
See every module, pricing tier, and deployment option on the OrcaMonitor overview.