Case study · Satellite & media

From watching a dashboard to a ping in seconds.

On the video platform of a global satellite operator, new incidents were only noticed when someone happened to look at the ticket board. We removed the 'happened to look' part.

Seconds
from new incident to Slack alert
Zero
duplicate alerts on standing incidents
24/7
board coverage without eyes on a screen
Days
from idea to running tool
Client
Global satellite operator (video platform)
What we built
Incident board watcher
Watches
The live incident queue, continuously
Alerts via
Slack, with duplicate suppression
Status
In production, managed
The problem

An incident queue is only as fast as the last person who looked at it.

New incidents landed on the platform's ticket board and stayed there until someone glanced over. Between glances, an incident could sit unclaimed while its impact grew.

Keeping a dashboard open in a corner of a screen isn't monitoring. It's hoping. On a busy operations floor, minutes of unnoticed queue time turn into real customer impact.

What we built

A watcher that never glances away.

Small, precise, and deliberately boring: the kind of tool that just quietly does its job.

Continuous queue watch

The tool reads the live incident board around the clock, so pickup no longer depends on anyone's peripheral vision.

Instant Slack alert

The moment a new incident appears, the on-shift team gets a Slack message with the details, in the channel they already work in.

Duplicate suppression

A standing incident never re-alerts. The channel stays high-signal, so alerts keep getting read instead of muted.

Built in days

A tightly-scoped tool solving one sharply defined problem, scoped, built, and in the team's hands within days.

The outcome

Nobody watches the board anymore. Nothing gets missed.

Before

  • New incidents noticed only when someone looked at the board
  • Pickup time varied with how busy the floor was
  • A dashboard permanently open, permanently half-watched
  • Standing incidents re-checked manually to see if anything was new

After

  • Every new incident announced in Slack within seconds
  • Pickup time consistent regardless of floor workload
  • Screen real estate and attention back with the team
  • One alert per incident, with no noise and no muted channels
Running in production

Going live was day one. It's been looked after every day since.

Ticket boards get reorganised, fields get renamed, platforms get updated, and unmanaged watchers silently stop working. This one is monitored and maintained, so a platform change on their side becomes a fix on ours, not a gap in coverage.

StatusIn production
MonitoringWatched around the clock
Maintained byThe team that built it

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