PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-call investigation documents
Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-wOtIm1gk, and our docs are here: https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/playbooks We were in YC’s W23 batch working on a data lakehouse with support for dynamic log schemas. Eventually we realized it was a product in search of a market and decided to…
PlayBooks – Jupyter Notebooks style on-call investigation documents launched on June 4, 2024 with 147 votes, #347 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
PlayBooks is an open source tool for on-call engineers to create executable notebooks for investigating and remediating incidents, replacing traditional Google Docs or Wikis. Built by former YC founders, it provides a Jupyter Notebooks-style interface where incident response procedures can be written, organized, and run directly within the platform. The tool is designed for development and operations teams managing on-call workflows who need a more dynamic and executable alternative to static documentation.
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From the sources
Runbook automation platform with deep observability integrations for SRE & On-Call Teams - DrDroidLab/PlayBooks
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here…
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