Database reporting
Ask your database a question. Get an answer, every morning.
An agent introspects your schema, writes the SQL, runs it, analyzes the results in its own sandbox, and posts a report your team reads — instead of a dashboard nobody opens.
How it works
Three steps to a standing task
- Step 01
Connect your database
Add a Postgres, MySQL, or ClickHouse connection with read-only credentials. Reach a private database through an SSH tunnel so nothing is exposed to the internet.
- Step 02
Describe the report
Say what the team wants to know and what counts as unusual. The agent introspects the schema, writes the queries, and shows the SQL it ran alongside the answer.
- Step 03
Put it on a schedule
Describe the cadence in plain English and Helios turns it into a cron trigger. The report shows up before standup, every day, without anyone maintaining it.
The run
What the agent actually does
Every step below is a real tool call: the agent reaches for the API it needs, reads what it finds, and acts.
Each morning, post yesterday's metrics with anything unusual called out.
- clickhouse·introspect schema and query 24h of events
- postgres·join account metadata
- code·compute trends and flag anomalies
- slack·post the report to #metrics
Metrics · Mar 6
- Runs 41.2k · up 6% day over day
- Signups 128 · in line with the trend
- Error rate up 0.4pp, concentrated in one region
- Query and assumptions attached to the run
Reach
The tools this agent touches
Each one connects once, and the agent gets its complete API.
This task belongs to Operations. See the rest of what that team hands off.
Templates
Start from a working agent
Each template carries the prompt, the trigger, and the integrations it needs.
Operations
Weekly metrics report
Queries your warehouse, computes the metrics your team argues about, and posts a report with the anomalies called out.
Operations
Nightly data quality checks
Runs your invariants against production every night and tells the on-call analyst which rows broke and since when.
Operations
KPI sheet refresh
Pulls from the warehouse every morning and writes the finished tables into the sheet leadership already opens.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Put an agent on database reporting.
Describe the task, attach a trigger, and let it run around the clock.