Automation

Put your routine ops on autopilot

Schedule the day-to-day work your team keeps doing by hand — cost sweeps, security scans, health checks, cleanups. Start from a template, apply in one click, and let CloudThinker run it on time.

Or let the work start itself: a workflow can fire on a schedule, a webhook, or an event from GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Datadog and the rest of your stack.

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Cost anomaly sweep → fix MR

4 steps, run by the CostOps agent

When

ScheduleWebhookApp eventChat
GitHub

GitHub pull_request.opened

repo:acme/infra — paths: terraform/**

+ 07:00 daily

Then

01Pull yesterday’s cost & usageread-only
02Compare vs per-service baselineread-only
03Disable idle provisioned throughputneeds approval
04Open MR and notify Slack #finopsaction
Run modeManual approvalAutoApply workflow
Ask me anything…

Triggers

A schedule is one trigger. Your stack is the rest.

Every workflow starts with a when. Pick a cadence, expose a webhook URL, or subscribe to the events your tools already emit — the steps, guardrails and run log stay the same whichever one fires.

Schedule

Daily, weekly, monthly or any cadence you name in plain language. Sensible defaults, no cron syntax.

every day at 07:00

Webhook

Every workflow gets a signed URL. POST to it from CI, a script, or any tool that can send a request.

POST /hooks/wf_8f21c4

App event

Subscribe to the tools you already run — git pushes and pull requests, Jira transitions, monitor alerts, on-call pages.

14 sources connected

Chat

Ask for the run in Slack or the console. Same workflow, same guardrails, started by a sentence.

› run the access review now

Choose a trigger sourceconnected via Connections
GitHub

GitHub

push, pull_request, release

GitLab

GitLab

merge_request, pipeline, tag

Jira

Jira

issue created, transitioned, commented

Datadog

Datadog

monitor alert, SLO burn

PagerDuty

PagerDuty

incident triggered, escalated

Slack

Slack

slash command, mention

Kubernetes

Kubernetes

deploy applied, pod evicted

AWS

AWS

CloudWatch alarm, budget breach

Grafana

Grafana

alert rule fired

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Custom webhook

any signed POST, with payload filters

One environment

Triggers reuse the connections you already made

The same Connections that give agents access to your cloud also carry the events back. Subscribe once, filter by repo, path, label, project or severity, and the workflow only wakes for what matters.

  • Payload filters — repo, path, label, severity, project
  • Signed URLs with replay protection and per-workflow secrets
  • Stack several triggers on one workflow — schedule plus events

How it works

From idea to running — in four steps

A simple, end-to-end path — no scripts, no cron files, no blank page.

Step 0

Start with an idea, get an agenda

Tell CloudThinker the routine work your team owns — cost, security, reliability, governance. It lays out a complete operations agenda: the recurring tasks, cadences, and agent owners your team runs, mapped onto one calendar.

  • Describe the ops you want in plain language — no setup
  • CloudThinker drafts a full operations agenda across every domain
  • Recurring tasks, cadences and agent owners on one calendar
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Step 1

Explore, customize, or build your own

Open the Templates gallery and browse proven CloudThinker automations grouped by domain. Customize any template to fit your environment — or start from scratch and save your own for the whole workspace.

  • CloudThinker default templates across cost, security, reliability, code and governance
  • Customize and save — tweak steps, then share as a workspace template
  • Search and category filters to find the right one fast
Templates42 in gallery
AllCostSecurityReliabilityCode

Daily cost anomaly sweep

schedule — every day at 07:00

Apply

Nightly staging pentest

schedule — every day at 01:00

Apply

Terraform cost review on every PR

app event — GitHub pull_request.opened

Apply

Triage the Jira ticket before standup

app event — Jira issue created (label: infra)

Apply

Build your own template

start from a blank workflow

New

Step 2

Apply, pick a trigger and a run mode

Pick a template and a quick drawer opens pre-filled. Set the trigger, the agent, and the run mode — Manual approval, or Auto within your guardrails — then apply. It becomes a live workflow against your unified environment.

  • Sensible defaults — no cron syntax, no YAML
  • Run mode: Manual approves each run, Auto stays inside your guardrails
  • Choose schedule or event, agent and notification channel
Apply templatepre-filled

Task name

Daily cost anomaly sweep

Trigger

Every day at 07:00

Run with

CostOps agent

Notify

Slack #finops

Run mode

Manual approvalAuto

Auto still respects every enabled guardrail

Apply template

Step 3

It runs on time — safely

CloudThinker runs the workflow when its trigger fires. Read-only steps run automatically; a write to prod pauses for a human to approve right in Slack or the console. Every step is logged.

  • Reads run instantly; writes wait for approval
  • Reversible-first, with auto-rollback on SLO breach
  • Full run log — what ran, what changed, who approved
run log — wf_8f21c4 at 07:00:04triggered by schedule
Pulled yesterday’s cost & usage1.2s
Compared vs per-service baseline0.8s
Found 1 anomaly2.1s

Disable idle provisioned throughput

needs approval — writes to prod

Approve

Step 4

See results, savings and reports

Each run posts a summary and rolls up into dashboards — realized savings, findings resolved, anomalies caught — plus scheduled PDF and CSV reports for stakeholders.

  • Live dashboards for cost, reliability and security
  • Realized-savings run-rate tracked over time
  • Board-ready reports delivered on a schedule
Resultslast 30 days

Realized / mo

$690

Runs this month

128

Triggered by events

61%

Savings run-rate

Weekly savings report

delivered to #finops

View

Use cases

Templates for the work you already do

Curated by CloudThinker across every ops surface — or build and share your own.

CostOps

Catch spend anomalies, clean up idle resources, review commitments.

› @cloudthinker why did spend jump yesterday?

Cyber

Nightly pentests, dependency and CVE scans, secret detection on commits.

› scan staging endpoints for broken auth

DRE

SLO health checks, backup verification, runbook dry-runs, cert watch.

› investigate payment-svc p99 spike

Governance

Access reviews, compliance evidence, tag hygiene — audit-ready.

› run this week’s access review

Code & delivery

Fires on git and Jira events — cost review on a Terraform PR, triage on a new infra ticket.

on pull_request.opened → review

Guardrails

Automated, but never unsupervised

Every workflow runs against the environment you unified in CloudThinker — connections, credentials and policy set once. It acts inside your guardrails and asks a human before anything risky.

Reads run automatically, writes need approval

Anything that changes prod waits for a human click.

Reversible-first and auto-rollback

Prefers safe actions; rolls back on any SLO breach.

One unified environment

Connections, credentials and policy configured once in CloudThinker.

Every run is logged and auditable

Full trail of what ran, what triggered it, what changed, and who approved it.

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