DEPLOY-002 critical Pipeline Stability
Deployment failures tracked and team notified
Team notified on both deployment success and failure
Question to ask
"How would you find out about a silent deploy failure?"
What to check
- ☐ Notifications configured (Slack, Discord, email, etc.)
- ☐ Both success and failure trigger notifications
- ☐ Deployment events tracked in CI history
- ☐ Failure rate visible and monitored
Related items
Verification guide
Severity: Critical
Check automatically:
Check workflow run failure rate:
# Get recent deployment runs with conclusions gh run list --limit 50 --json workflowName,conclusion --jq '[.[] | select(.workflowName | test("deploy|release"; "i"))] | group_by(.conclusion) | map({conclusion: .[0].conclusion, count: length})'Check for notification on success AND failure:
# Look for Slack/Discord/email notifications grep -riE "slack|discord|notify|email|webhook|teams" .github/workflows/*.yml 2>/dev/nullCheck if notifications happen on both success and failure:
# Look for conditional notifications grep -B5 -A15 "slack\|discord\|notify" .github/workflows/*.yml 2>/dev/null | grep -E "if:|success|failure|always"Check for GitHub deployment statuses:
# Get recent deployments and their statuses gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/deployments --jq '.[0:5] | .[] | {environment, sha: .sha[0:7], created_at}'Check for third-party deployment tracking:
# Look for deployment tracking integrations grep -riE "sentry.*release|datadog|newrelic|honeycomb|deploy.*track" .github/workflows/*.yml 2>/dev/null
Cross-reference with:
- DEPLOY-001 (Workflow exists and is stable)
- Section 19 (Sentry deployment integration)
Pass criteria:
- Failure rate calculable from CI history
- Notifications configured for both success and failure
- Team actually receives deploy notifications (Slack channel, email, etc.)
- Deployment events tracked (GitHub deployments API or third-party)
Fail criteria:
- No visibility into deployment success/failure
- Only failure notifications (miss successful deploys)
- Notifications configured but going nowhere (dead channel)
- No historical deployment tracking
If no notifications found, ask user: "No deployment notifications found in workflows. How does the team know when deploys happen? Notifications should fire on both success and failure so the team has visibility."
Evidence to capture:
- Notification method (Slack, Discord, email, etc.)
- Notification channel/destination
- Whether both success and failure trigger notifications
- Failure rate over recent deployments
- Deployment tracking integration (if any)