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Share monthly incident patterns in Slack

Turn a month of incidents into a few decisions for the next month.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Post message to channel

Deprecated: posts a message to a slack channel, direct message, or private channel. use `send message` instead.

Why this helps

Long incident lists rarely become clear priorities without structured review.

  • Find recurring failure modes
  • Support roadmap decisions
  • Reduce manual reporting

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Better Stack and Slack in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation named Monthly Incident Patterns.
  • 3Tell Notis to analyze the previous month and post recurring causes, affected services, and recommended priorities to Slack.
  • 4Pick a recurring Notis cron schedule and report channel.
  • 5Test it with one completed month.

Questions about this workflow

Can it compare months?

Yes. Ask Notis to compare the previous month with an earlier period when the data is available.

Will it invent missing causes?

No. Ask it to identify missing evidence and separate observations from hypotheses.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Better stack to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Better stack triggers

Slack actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Set snooze duration

Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Add a custom emoji to a Slack team

Deprecated: adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url. use `add emoji` instead.

ActionInstant

Add an emoji alias

Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.

ActionInstant

Add a remote file

Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., google drive, dropbox) to slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external id` and an `external url` accessible by slack.

ActionInstant

Add a star to an item

Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in slack.

ActionInstant

Add call participants

Registers new participants added to a slack call.

ActionInstant

Add emoji

Adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url; subject to workspace emoji limits.

ActionInstant

Add reaction to message

Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a slack channel, identified by its timestamp; does not remove or retrieve reactions.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Better stack and Slack, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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