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Ahmed Awwad's profile image
Ahmed Awwad posted Tue May 27, 2025 03:13 PM

Hey, 

Are there any suggestions to be able to debug and test my playbook without creating ton of incidents in the soar?

Because when I am trying to Design a Tunning request by L1 analysts by SOAR, so I am designing a new structured Playbook and handling all custom fields I create and so on, but when I make any changes to Playbook and try to Test through an already Case created that meets the needed conditions, the case not reflecting the new changes done to the playbook.
So, I have to create a new incident from scratch to test every single step or error.
When I change the already created cases, they gave the old errors that should be resolved in my changes.

Rodrigo Hormazabal Rebolledo's profile image
Rodrigo Hormazabal Rebolledo posted Wed June 11, 2025 01:27 PM

Hey,

I'm not entirely sure I fully understood your request, but just to share what we usually do in an MSSP environment:

We typically create a dedicated development organization within SOAR, where we design and test new playbooks. That way, we avoid cluttering the production org with test incidents and can iterate freely without affecting operational data.

Once the playbook is working as expected and has been validated, we migrate it to the target organization for production use.

This approach helps us isolate development from operations, and also speeds up debugging and testing since we don't have to worry about breaking anything live.

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