Keep infrastructure usage in view during pipeline reviews
Review business pipeline movement and Datadog usage in one scheduled update to make cost context easier to notice.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get usage summary
Retrieves usage totals, including API calls, hosts, and containers.
Why this helps
Datadog usage can grow quietly while attention is focused on deals, customers, and fundraising.
- Puts usage context beside pipeline updates
- Makes consumption checks part of a routine review
- Reduces the need to open a separate usage screen
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Affinity and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis to create it from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to summarize the Affinity pipeline context and retrieve a Datadog usage summary for the relevant period.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real example and confirm the usage period and summary are clear.
Questions about this workflow
Can this calculate Datadog spend from usage?
The action retrieves a usage summary, including billable usage metrics. Any cost calculation beyond the returned summary may need pricing data supplied separately.
What period does the usage action cover?
Use the supported usage summary options and specify the desired period in the automation instruction.
Does this alter Datadog billing settings?
No. It retrieves usage information for reporting.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Affinity to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Affinity 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.
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Aggregates logs into counts, statistics, groupings or trends without downloading raw events.
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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.
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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.
Affinity and Datadog, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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