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# Playbook Essentials

### Playbook Essentials:

Every Playbook can have the following parameters:

1. **Playbook Title:** Name of the playbook.
2. **Description:** Description of the playbook explaining what the playbook can help the user with.
3. **[Global Variables](/docs/global-variables)**: Variables that can be defined for usage across the playbook.
4. **Time Range:** A global time range for usage across all queries within the playbook.
5. **Playbook steps:** A Playbook step is an execution of a procedure or fetching of a data in helping achieve the objective of the playbook.

### Playbook Step Essentials:

A Playbook can further be defined as follows:

1. Title: Name of the Step
2. Notes: Description of why that step is being taken, how to interpret data from that step or any additional information to assist the user.
3. [External Links](/docs/documentation-task): Any 3rd party links that can be relevant in context of the step.
4. **Step Configuration:** What tool does this step refer to? What action or execution within that tool?
5. Output: The result of execution of **"Step Configuration"**.
6. **[Interpreter](/docs/interpretation-task):** Model being used to analyse and interpret the output from this step's configuration.
7. Step Variables: In case you are using [Grafana+Prometheus](/docs/grafana) integration, any variable defined in your metric\_query using \$var\_name will be accessible in the step with a dropdown.

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A sample step for a cloudwatch metric
