Keep an eye on important Ably channel presence
Have Notis check channel presence on a schedule and turn a meaningful, user-defined condition into a Datadog monitor.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create monitor
Creates a new datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.
Why this helps
When teams depend on channel presence as an operational signal, checking it manually can become another task that slips during a busy day.
- Surfaces a chosen presence condition for ongoing monitoring
- Cuts repeated manual presence checks
- Creates a Datadog artifact for follow-up
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Ably and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis which channel presence condition should lead it to create a Datadog monitor; provide any threshold or baseline it needs.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one real presence example and review the resulting monitor.
Questions about this workflow
Can this workflow infer the right presence threshold?
No. Provide the condition or threshold you want Notis to use. If it needs a baseline that Ably does not provide, supply that too.
Does this monitor itself continuously query Ably?
The workflow runs on the schedule you choose. The action creates a Datadog monitor; it is not described here as a continuous Ably query.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Ably to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Ably triggers
Datadog actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Dashboard
Create a dashboard in datadog. dashboards provide customizable visualizations for monitoring your infrastructure, applications, and business metrics in a unified view.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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Create event
Creates a new event in datadog. events are useful for tracking deployments, outages, configuration changes, and other important occurrences.
Create monitor
Creates a new datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.
Create SLO
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Create Webhook
Create a webhook in datadog. webhooks enable you to receive notifications from datadog monitors and alerts to external services and applications.
Delete Dashboard
Delete a dashboard in datadog. permanently removes a dashboard from your organization. this action cannot be undone. use with caution.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Ably and Datadog, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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