Subflow Use Case Examples

Subflows A reusable automation chunk that performs frequently used functions, such as opening a ticket in an external system, and can be used to implement integrations with third-party systems. are useful when you want to implement a common runbook An automated workflow that executes a series of steps or tasks in response to a triggered event, such as the detection of anomalous behavior generating an incident, a lifecycle event, or a manually executed runbook. operation once and reuse it in multiple runbooks. Some examples of use cases for subflows are:

• Create ServiceNow ticket.

• Create a complex async query to Aternity remediation service.

• Check whether a problem is server or network related.

• Get a list of interfaces traversed by an application, with their actual utilization.

• Parse Aternity webhook payload.

• Display a time series with analysis (peak, outlier, etc.).

• Get the top applications in the network.

To create and use subflows in runbooks, see Working with Subflows. For a step-by-step walkthrough that builds a subflow and calls it from a runbook, see Subflow Creation Example.