Linear

The Linear integration connects Kestrel to your Linear workspace, enabling automated issue creation from workflows and historical issue search during incident investigations.

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Prerequisites

• Organization Admin role in Kestrel
• Linear account with workspace access

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Setup

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How It’s Used

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In Workflows

• Action blocks:
  • Create Issue — create Linear issues with customizable team, project, title, description, priority, labels, and assignee
  • Update Issue — modify fields on existing issues
  • Search Issues — query Linear for related issues
  • Add Comment — add comments to existing issues with workflow context

Example: A workflow triggered by a deployment failure can automatically create a Linear issue assigned to the owning team with incident context and logs.

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In Incident Response

• Knowledge source — during root cause analysis, Kestrel searches Linear for similar past issues, related bugs, and historical context about affected services (see Knowledge Sources)
• Issue creation — create Linear issues directly from incident detail pages to track remediation work

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In Cloud AI Copilot

• Create issues from the chat: Create a Linear issue for the API latency regression
• Search for related issues: Find Linear issues related to database connection timeouts

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Configuration

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Knowledge Source Setup

To use Linear as a knowledge source during incident investigations:

1. Navigate to Integrations → Knowledge Sources
2. Click Add Source and select Linear
3. Your connected Linear workspace is auto-detected
4. Click Enable

Kestrel will search Linear issues and comments for relevant historical context during incident RCA.

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Disconnecting

1. Navigate to Integrations → Linear
2. Click Disconnect
3. Confirm the disconnection

This stops all Linear workflow actions and removes Linear as a knowledge source. You can reconnect at any time.