Send an alert for urgent CircleCI failures
Escalate the failures that meet your criteria and leave routine noise behind.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Send Email
Sends an email via gmail api using the authenticated user's google profile display name, requiring `is html=true` if the body contains html and valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, `name` for any attachment.
Why this helps
Important failures can be buried among routine build notifications and unrelated inbox activity.
- Escalate only failures that meet a defined condition.
- Include the CircleCI details behind the alert.
- Avoid treating every failure as urgent.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect CircleCI and Gmail once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it Urgent Build Failure Alert.
- 3Tell Notis which CircleCI result to inspect, define what makes a failure urgent, and send a Gmail alert only when the available evidence meets that condition.
- 4Choose a webhook trigger, select where run reports should go, and test with one real example.
Questions about this workflow
How should urgency be defined?
State a concrete condition such as a named production pipeline or a specified deployment stage. Notis can only evaluate conditions supported by available data.
What happens when it does not qualify?
The automation can record the result in its run report without sending an email.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Circleci to Gmail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Circleci triggers
Gmail actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Modify email labels
Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids).
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create email draft
Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.
Create label
Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account.
Delete Draft
Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`.
Delete message
Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access.
Fetch emails
Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval.
Fetch message by message ID
Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`.
Fetch Message by Thread ID
Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Circleci and Gmail, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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