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Custom Keywords & Patterns

Help OpsBrief's AI better understand your team's specific terminology for more accurate event detection.

Why Use Custom Keywords?

Every team has unique terminology. Custom keywords help OpsBrief:

  • Recognize your terminology: "LGTM", "ship it", project codenames
  • Reduce false negatives: Catch events that use non-standard phrasing
  • Improve accuracy: Better match between your channels and detected events

Common Custom Keywords

Release & Deployment

ship it
LGTM
merged to main
deployed to prod
v1.0.0
release-*
hotfix
rollback complete

Incident & Severity

SEV1
SEV2
P0
P1
incident commander
IC:
postmortem
root cause
all clear

Project Codenames

Project Phoenix
Operation Thunderbolt
Initiative Alpha
[Your project names]

Tool-Specific

PagerDuty alert
Datadog warning
CircleCI failed
GitHub Actions
Vercel deployed

Adding Custom Keywords

1

Go to Settings → Events

In your dashboard, navigate to Settings → Events.

2

Select an event type

Choose which event type you want to add keywords for (e.g., "Releases").

3

Add keywords

Enter keywords separated by commas. Keywords are case-insensitive.

4

Test and iterate

Review your next few digests. Add more keywords if you're missing events, remove them if you're getting false positives.

Best Practices

Start with high-confidence keywords

Add keywords that almost always indicate an event. 'deployed to prod' is better than just 'deploy'.

Include variations

Add different ways people say the same thing: 'shipped', 'released', 'deployed', 'pushed to prod'.

Use project codenames

If your team uses codenames, add them. 'Project Titan launched' should be detected as a release.

Review and prune

After a month, review which keywords are triggering. Remove ones causing false positives.

Real Examples

Engineering Team
Releases
ship it
LGTM
merged to main
v*.*.*
hotfix deployed
release notes
DevOps Team
Incidents
SEV1
SEV2
P0
pager fired
incident declared
postmortem scheduled
Product Team
Feature Launches
launched
now available
rolled out
enabled for all
feature flag on

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