How it works

Follow these 5 simple steps to get Slack alerts whenever Shopify services experience issues

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Schedule
App connector: Schedule • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)
Why this matters: This trigger runs every 15 minutes to continuously monitor Shopify's status, ensuring you catch service issues quickly rather than discovering them when customers complain.

The Schedule trigger automatically runs this workflow every 15 minutes around the clock. The schedule is pre-configured with a cron expression that checks Shopify's status page at regular intervals. No configuration is needed - the workflow will begin monitoring as soon as you activate it. This frequent checking ensures you're alerted to service disruptions within minutes of them appearing on Shopify's status page.

Scrape Webpage
App connector: Scraper • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)
Why this matters: This step retrieves the current content from Shopify's status page in a format that AI can analyze, providing the raw data needed to detect service issues.

The scraper automatically visits www.shopifystatus.com and converts the webpage content into markdown text format. The scraper is pre-configured to target Shopify's official status page and requires no setup from you. It captures all the current service status information, incident reports, and maintenance notifications that appear on the page. This data gets passed to the next step for AI analysis to determine if any services are experiencing problems.

Check for Service Errors
App connector: AI • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)
Why this matters: This AI step analyzes the scraped status page content and makes a binary decision about whether service issues exist, acting as the gateway that determines if alerts should be sent.

The AI prompt examines the markdown content from the status page and responds with either "true" if known issues are detected or "false" if all services are operating normally. The AI is specifically trained to identify service disruptions, maintenance windows, and incident reports from Shopify's status page format. The temperature is set to 1 to ensure consistent, reliable responses. This step's true/false output becomes the trigger condition for the filter in the next step.

Filter
App connector: Filter • Time to complete: 0 minutes (Auto-configured)
Why this matters: This filter prevents unnecessary Slack messages by only allowing the workflow to continue when the AI detects actual service issues, eliminating spam notifications during normal operations.

The filter checks if the AI's response equals "true" and only allows the workflow to proceed when service issues are detected. When the AI response is "false" (no issues), the workflow stops here and no Slack message is sent. This prevents your team from receiving constant "all clear" notifications every 15 minutes. Only when genuine service problems are identified does the workflow continue to extract details and send an alert.

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Send Message
App connector: Slack • Time to complete: 2 minutes
Why this matters: This final step delivers a targeted Slack notification with specific details about which Shopify services are affected, giving your team immediate actionable information about the outage.

You'll need to select which Slack channel should receive the service alerts in the "channel" field - popular choices include #operations, #alerts, or #dev-team. The message automatically includes a link to Shopify's status page and lists the specific services experiencing issues as determined by the AI analysis. Before selecting your channel, make sure to invite the MESA Slack app by typing @MESA in your chosen channel and clicking the Invite button, as private channels won't appear in the dropdown until the app is invited.

Make it your own

Customize this workflow even further:

Monitor multiple status pages
Add additional scraper steps to monitor other critical services like your payment processor, CDN, or hosting provider, creating a comprehensive service monitoring dashboard.
Set different alert priorities
Use AI to categorize issues by severity and route critical outages to urgent channels while sending minor maintenance notifications to less critical channels.
Store outage history in tables
Save detected issues to a MESA table with timestamps and affected services to build historical reports and track service reliability patterns over time.
Deploy AI agents for smart escalation
Let AI agents evaluate the severity and duration of outages to automatically escalate persistent issues to management or trigger additional response workflows.

Frequently asked questions

How often does this check Shopify's status page?
The workflow runs every 15 minutes, which balances timely notifications with reasonable resource usage. You can modify the schedule in the trigger step if you need more or less frequent monitoring.
Can this detect planned maintenance or just unexpected outages?
The AI analyzes all content on Shopify's status page, so it will alert you to both unexpected service disruptions and scheduled maintenance windows that could affect your operations.
What is a template?
MESA templates are fully pre-configured workflows built and vetted by Shopify Experts. Unlike competitor templates that provide basic scaffolds requiring extensive setup, MESA templates come with all data variables properly mapped, required fields configured, and steps ready to activate. You can turn them on immediately and start automating.
Can I customize a template?
Absolutely! While our templates work out-of-the-box, every step can be personalized to match your exact business requirements. Add conditional logic, integrate additional apps, or build more sophisticated workflows. MESA's templates provide a solid foundation that you can expand as needed.
Are templates free?
Yes! Our entire library of expert-built, production-ready templates is free to use. Unlike platforms that charge for premium templates or provide only basic scaffolds, MESA gives you access to hundreds of fully-configured, vetted workflows at no additional cost.

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