Modern SRE Platform Rootly Orchestration Demo: Live Walkthrough

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams often find themselves buried in alerts, bogged down by manual incident response tasks (also known as toil), and under constant pressure to keep complex systems online. In today's cloud-native world, maintaining reliability requires more than just good intentions—it demands intelligent automation. This is where a modern SRE platform like Rootly comes in.

Rootly is designed to solve these exact problems through smart automation and orchestration. This post will serve as a live walkthrough of Rootly's orchestration capabilities, showing how it can centralize and automate the entire incident lifecycle, from the first alert to the final retrospective.

What is Rootly? The Central Hub for SRE Automation

At its core, Rootly is an AI-native incident management and on-call platform [3]. Think of it as a central command center that connects all the moving parts of your incident response. It links alerts from your monitoring tools, your team's communication channels, and your remediation scripts into a single, streamlined workflow.

The main goal is to free up your engineers from repetitive, manual tasks so they can focus on what they do best: solving complex problems and building better systems. By using AI-powered SRE platforms, teams can cut toil by up to 60%, shifting their focus from reactive firefighting to proactive, automated incident management.

Live Walkthrough: Rootly's Orchestration Features in Action

Let's take a virtual tour of Rootly's key functionalities. This walkthrough will show you how Rootly integrates with the tools you already use to create a seamless and efficient response process from start to finish.

Step 1: Setting Up Your Incident Response Command Center

Getting started with Rootly is fast and straightforward. You can create an account and integrate it with essential collaboration tools like Slack in just a few minutes. This initial setup establishes your command center, where all incident response activities will be coordinated.

Our Live Demo - Rootly Docs page shows how you can be up and running in about 15 minutes. For a visual guide, you can also see an [end-to-end demo of how Rootly works with Slack][2].

Step 2: Automating the Full Incident Lifecycle to Reduce Toil

Rootly is one of the best SRE automation tools to reduce toil because it automates processes from the moment an alert is detected to the final resolution.

Incident Detection & Triage

Rootly integrates with over 100 tools, including observability platforms and error trackers. When an issue is detected, an alert is automatically sent to Rootly. For example, you can configure it to automatically create alerts from [Honeybadger events][7]. Based on predefined rules, Rootly can then triage the incident, assigning the correct severity and notifying the right people.

Incident Response & Collaboration

Once an incident is declared, Rootly's automated workflows kick in. It can:

• Create a dedicated Slack channel for the incident.
• Page the on-call engineer using their preferred contact method.
• Pull in relevant data from other tools.
• Update stakeholders automatically through status pages.

This automation ensures that everyone is on the same page without anyone needing to perform these steps manually. You can get a complete Overview of the incident process in Rootly to learn more.

Automated Remediation

Rootly can also connect to your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible to trigger automated remediation playbooks. For instance, if a service is down, a workflow in Rootly can automatically trigger a script to restart it or roll back a recent deployment. This capability where Rootly Automates Remediation with Terraform and Ansible is a game-changer for reducing resolution times.

Step 3: Leveraging AI for Root Cause Analysis and Continuous Learning

Rootly goes beyond simple automation with its advanced AI capabilities, making it one of the leading AI root cause analysis platforms available today. Features like Incident Summarization and Mitigation and Resolution Summary use AI to distill complex incident data into clear, factual reports.

With the "Ask Rootly AI" feature, your team can use natural language to get troubleshooting advice, pull incident summaries, or identify related past incidents. This helps accelerate root cause analysis and promotes continuous improvement. Post-incident learning is also automated, as you can see in this [Rootly Retrospectives Demo][5], which streamlines the creation of postmortems and action items. These powerful features are central to how Rootly Powers Autonomous SRE and builds a foundation for self-healing systems.

Top SRE Tools 2025: Rootly vs. Competitors

When evaluating the top SRE tools for 2025, it's important to compare platforms on key capabilities. Rootly stands out against competitors with its AI-first approach and deep, sophisticated automation.

Feature

Rootly

Other Tools (e.g., Incident.io)

AI-Powered Analysis

Native AI for summaries, root cause suggestions, and retrospectives.

Often limited to basic suggestions or requires add-ons.

Workflow Automation Sophistication

Highly customizable, visual builder for complex, multi-step workflows.

Basic, linear workflows.

Integration Ecosystem

Extensive library with deep integrations, including IaC and search.

Primarily focused on chat and alerting integrations.

Cloud-Native Focus

Designed for the complexities of microservices and Kubernetes.

Often geared towards monolithic or simpler architectures.

Toil Reduction Capabilities

Automates the full lifecycle, including remediation and learning.

Focuses mainly on communication and tracking automation.

Rootly’s flexibility also shines through its custom integrations. For example, the [Rootly + OpsLevel Custom Integration Demo][4] shows how you can sync incident data for a richer, more connected view of your service health.

Building a Resilient SRE Stack with Rootly Orchestration

A modern SRE stack consists of several layers, and Rootly acts as the intelligence and automation layer that orchestrates them all.

• Observability: Tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana detect issues.
• IaC/Automation: Tools like Terraform and Ansible execute changes.
• Collaboration: Tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams facilitate communication.

Rootly serves as the single pane of glass, bringing data and actions from these systems into one unified interface. This central hub model is enhanced by integrations with platforms like [Glean Work AI][6] for unified search across all your apps and [Composio][8] for connecting multiple tool accounts seamlessly.

Conclusion: The Future of SRE is Orchestrated by Rootly

As this walkthrough shows, Rootly is much more than just another incident management tool—it's a complete orchestration platform built for modern SRE. By automating manual tasks, centralizing communication, and leveraging AI for deeper insights, Rootly helps teams drastically reduce resolution times, eliminate toil, and move toward building proactive, self-healing systems.

For any organization serious about building a resilient and scalable SRE practice in 2025 and beyond, an intelligent orchestration hub like Rootly is essential.

Ready to see how Rootly can transform your incident management? Watch the Live Demo and get started today.

‍