How do I add triggers to a Playbook?

Workflows that run themselves free up your team for higher-value work. AirOps Playbooks support four trigger types: Schedule, Webhook, Monitor, and AEO Insight. Each one automates a different activation pattern. This tutorial covers how to configure all four.

Key takeaways

  1. Triggers automate when a Playbook runs by letting you define the conditions for execution, but your Playbook must be published before any trigger can be configured.
  2. Four trigger types are available: Schedule for recurring runs, Webhook for external HTTP POST, Monitor for specific conditions, and AEO Insight for AI search performance changes.
  3. You can add multiple triggers to a single Playbook, each covering a different activation scenario.
  4. Triggers can be paused and re-enabled without deleting them, keeping your configuration intact while you temporarily stop automation.
  5. Triggered run results appear in your Run History and Inbox.

Tutorial overview

Triggers automate when your Playbook runs. Instead of starting each execution manually, you set conditions that fire your Playbook automatically.

AirOps supports four trigger types. Schedule triggers run your Playbook on a recurring cadence, like daily or weekly. Webhook triggers fire when an external system sends an HTTP request, connecting your Playbook to third-party tools in real time. Monitor triggers watch for specific conditions and run your Playbook when those conditions are met. AEO Insight triggers respond to changes in your AI search performance metrics.

Triggers are accessible from the Playbook header or the sidebar, and you can stack multiple trigger types on a single Playbook. Results from triggered runs appear in your run history and inbox. One requirement: your Playbook must be published before you can configure any trigger. Draft Playbooks cannot have active triggers. You can pause a trigger without deleting it, so your configuration stays intact while you temporarily stop automation.

Practice

  1. Open the Triggers Panel and Review Trigger Types

    The Triggers panel in AirOps Playbooks is opened via the Add Trigger button in the toolbar below the Playbook title. Clicking it reveals trigger type options on the left side of the editor. AirOps supports four trigger types: Schedule, Webhook, Monitor, and AEO Insight, each representing a distinct automation pattern, from time-based execution to metric-based activation.

  2. Configure Your Trigger Type

    Schedule runs your Playbook on a recurring cadence; set the interval and start time in trigger settings. Webhook generates a unique endpoint URL for external systems to call, mapping input parameters to Playbook fields. Monitor watches a defined metric or data condition and fires when a threshold is crossed. AEO Insight fires when AirOps detects a significant change in AI visibility or search performance metrics.