Reduce alert noise during planned maintenance
Turn a maintenance request into a Datadog downtime so teams can focus on the work underway.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create downtime
Creates downtime to silence alerts during maintenance or planned outages.
Why this helps
Planned maintenance can generate avoidable alerts when suppressions are not set up in time.
- Create downtime from an incoming maintenance request.
- Reduce false alarms during planned work.
- Keep the maintenance window and alert suppression connected.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Aeroleads and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis what to do from any channel.
- 3Tell Notis to create Datadog downtime using the maintenance window and scope supplied in the webhook request.
- 4Choose the webhook trigger and where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real planned maintenance request and review the downtime in Datadog.
Questions about this workflow
What details must the request include?
Supply the planned window and the scope or monitor selection needed for the downtime. The workflow cannot infer missing maintenance details.
Does downtime delete or mute monitors permanently?
No. The listed action creates a downtime to suppress alerts during the specified maintenance window.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Aeroleads to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Aeroleads triggers
Datadog actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Dashboard
Creates a dashboard for viewing infrastructure, application, or business metrics.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Aggregate logs
Aggregates logs into counts, statistics, groupings or trends without downloading raw events.
Create downtime
Creates downtime to silence alerts during maintenance or planned outages.
Create event
Creates an event to record an important occurrence, such as a deployment or outage.
Create monitor
Creates a monitor to track data and trigger alerts.
Create On-Call escalation policy
Creates an on-call escalation policy.
Create SLO
Creates a service level objective to track service reliability targets.
Create Synthetic API Test
Creates a synthetic API test to monitor API availability and performance from multiple locations.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Aeroleads and Datadog, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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