Make CircleCI deployment blockers trackable in Linear
Capture a blocked deployment and its available evidence as work the team can follow.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Why this helps
A deployment blocker can interrupt planned work, while its cause and next step remain scattered across alerts and chat.
- Make deployment blockers visible as owned work.
- Preserve the notification details for investigation.
- Reduce the time between an alert and a trackable next step.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect CircleCI and Linear once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation with a clear name.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to create a Linear issue for each deployment blocker notification, including available run and error details.
- 4Choose the Notis webhook trigger and set a destination for run reports.
- 5Send a real blocker notification and review the resulting issue.
Questions about this workflow
What qualifies as a deployment blocker?
Configure CircleCI to send the relevant notifications to the webhook, and describe any additional blocker criteria in the instruction.
Can it assign the issue automatically?
The Create Linear issue action supports an optional assignee. Specify an assignee only when the correct user is known and available.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Circleci to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Circleci triggers
Linear actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Circleci and Linear, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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