Review Datadog usage as operations grow
Keep observability spend understandable as your restaurant footprint changes.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get usage summary
Retrieves usage summary information from datadog including api calls, hosts, containers, and other billable usage metrics. useful for cost monitoring and usage analysis.
Why this helps
Usage increases are hard to interpret when infrastructure spend and operating growth are reviewed in separate places.
- Make usage changes easier to explain
- Support recurring cost reviews
- Connect spend to operating context
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect 7shifts and Datadog in the Notis portal once.
- 2Create an automation for a scheduled usage review.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve the Datadog usage summary and interpret it using the available 7shifts growth context, noting missing data.
- 4Choose a recurring Notis cron trigger and select the report channel.
- 5Run one real review and confirm the report scope.
Questions about this workflow
Does this change Datadog billing settings?
No. It retrieves and summarizes usage information.
What growth information is required?
Use the location, staffing, or operating context available from 7shifts or included in your instruction.
Can it identify the cause of a usage increase?
It can describe supported relationships and uncertainty, but should not claim causes that the data cannot establish.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link 7shifts to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
7shifts triggers
Datadog actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Webhook trigger
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Create Webhook
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Delete Dashboard
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