Context Propagation in PlayBooks using Global Variables

[sidPhoenix17]

Pre-Read:

Playbooks allow variables that can be configured in any of the queries and can be changed in real-time when executing them from the web. This allows them to reuse a playbook for similar services / components.

Workflows enable users to execute such a playbook from a trigger of an API call / Alerts. Since these playbooks get executed in background, the user loses the ability to edit these variables before executing.

Objective:

To give the user more control over their playbook executions, we have allowed user to include parameters in their API call triggers which get passed to the playbook on the execution. Similar context passing is being built for triggers from Slack / Pagerduty alerts.

Request for Inputs:

• For the tools that you would use as triggers in your workflow, what context propagation functionalities will be useful/essential for you?

[sidPhoenix17]

We have released this in our latest release v1.4.1