Prompt Library

Battle-tested operational prompts

A curated library of investigation and automation prompts written by SREs running Hyground in production. Reusable, role-tagged, and verified against real incident scenarios.

Auto-RCA

Triggered automatically when an alert fires

These workflows do not need a human prompt. Hyground listens for alerts on its Herald endpoint and starts the investigation the moment they arrive.

On alert

Investigate a pager alert immediately, before the IC joins the call

“An Alertmanager alert arrives at the Hyground Herald endpoint. No human prompt is needed, the trigger fires automatically.”

Pattern detection

Recognise repeat incidents and surface the common root cause

“This alert signature has fired three times in 14 days. Compare the previous investigations and surface the factors they share.”

SRE activities

The operational work an SRE runs every week

Capacity, security, change risk, cost, reliability, compliance, performance. These prompts encode the standing questions every SRE team answers manually today, and lets Hyground answer them with evidence.

Capacity

Right-size a Kubernetes cluster based on real workload

“Analyse CPU and memory usage across all workloads in cluster prod-eu-central-1 over the last 30 days. Recommend node-pool changes that maintain 30% headroom.”

Security

Assess the blast radius of a published CVE across your fleet

“CVE-2026-12345 affects library X versions below 2.4. List every service that depends on it, which clusters they run in, and the upgrade path per service.”

Change risk

Verify readiness before promoting a release to production

“Before promoting release v4.18 to production, check capacity headroom, secrets rotation, downstream dependency health, and open incidents on related services.”

FinOps

Triage a cost anomaly across cloud accounts

“The AWS bill jumped 18% week-over-week. Find which services and accounts contributed, and explain why.”

Reliability

Find every TLS certificate expiring in the next 30 days

“List every TLS certificate across our clusters and ingress controllers that expires within 30 days. Group by service owner.”

Compliance

Identify RBAC drift between intended policy and live state

“Compare the current Kubernetes RBAC across cluster prod-eu-west-1 with the policy in our policy-as-code repository. Surface drift.”

Operations

Generate a current dependency map for a critical service

“Map the runtime dependencies of the translation-api service: upstream callers, downstream databases and caches, external APIs, and their SLOs.”

Performance

Investigate database slowness without paging the DBA

“p99 query latency on the orders database has doubled since yesterday. Find which queries regressed and why.”

Beyond SRE

Prompts for the rest of the engineering organisation

Hyground is not just for the on-call. Analysts, developers, QA, engineering managers and leadership can ask the same operational platform for answers that used to require interrupting an engineer.

Analyst

Pull a business metric without writing a query

“How many active organisations had at least one paid translation request in the last seven days, broken down by region?”

Developer

Reproduce a production issue locally

“Customer report: translation latency spike on the EN-DE pair this morning. Pull the relevant traces, sanitised request payloads, and downstream service responses so I can reproduce locally.”

QA

Find which integration tests have flaked the most this sprint

“List the ten flakiest integration tests over the last sprint, grouped by feature area, and link to the latest failure logs.”

Engineering manager

Get a weekly operational summary without nagging the on-call

“Summarise the past week of operations for my team: incidents handled, MTTR trend, top recurring issues, on-call hours, and customer impact.”

Leadership

Spot operational risk before it becomes an incident

“What are the top five operational risks across our platform right now? Use recent incidents, alert frequency, capacity trends, and open security findings.”

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