Workbooks overview
Visual, programmable runbooks across every layer of your stack.
What a Workbook is
A Workbook is a visual, programmable workflow — a directed graph of steps — that walks a real user journey or operational procedure across every layer of your stack at once and explains itself as it runs. If traditional monitoring tells you that something broke, a Workbook tells you what broke, where, why, and increasingly does something about it.
What it can do in a single run
- Drive the experience — real browser and API steps.
- Look behind the curtain — correlate APM traces, query the database, scrape logs, probe the network — including private infrastructure via on-prem agents.
- Judge and decide — assert on anything, then branch, loop, wait, or pause for human approval.
- Act — fire HTTP actions to remediate, open a war room, page people.
- Explain itself — agentic AI narrates each step and writes a post-run analysis.
The DAG model
Nodes are steps; edges define order and data flow. Nodes with no dependency on each other run in parallel "levels". Each node's outputs become {{variables}} downstream. A run produces a timeline you can replay, with per-node status, outputs, and narration.
Continue with Getting started, the Node reference, Control flow and variables, AI quality, and Running, scheduling and CI.