Catch failed Solana deploys within 2 minutes and cut mean-time-to-fix from 3 hours to under 30 minutes.
~2 hrs
Saved / wk
Easy
Setup
No AI
AI
Better Sol deploys Solana programs with one command, but a failed deploy — wrong network, insufficient SOL balance, program size limit — can sit unnoticed for hours if you rely on email notifications. This workflow monitors your GitHub Actions deploy pipeline and fires a Slack message to your engineering channel the moment a Better Sol deploy step fails, including the error log snippet and a direct link to the failing run.
~2 hrs
Saved / Week
Easy to set up
Setup Complexity
No AI involved
AI Status
Step 1: In your GitHub Actions deploy workflow, add an 'on failure' step at the end of the Better Sol deploy job.
Step 2: Use the GitHub Actions Slack notification action (or a webhook step) to send a payload on failure.
Step 3: Include in the payload: the failing job name, the first 20 lines of error output, and the Actions run URL.
Step 4: In your Slack workspace, create or identify the #deployments channel to receive alerts.
Step 5: Configure the GitHub → Slack connection using a Slack incoming webhook URL stored as a GitHub secret.
Step 6: Simulate a failure by intentionally misconfiguring the deploy command and confirm the Slack alert arrives within 60 seconds.
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