Know who is on call without leaving your inbox
When an email raises an on-call question, get the current Better Stack schedule details in your run report.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
List On-Call Schedules
Tool to list all on-call schedules. use when you need to retrieve all configured on-call calendars.
Why this helps
Schedule questions buried in email can trigger a distracting search across tools just to find who is covering.
- See current on-call schedules in the context of an incoming email.
- Reduce manual switching between inbox and monitoring tools.
- Keep the schedule lookup and its run report together.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Better Stack once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and give it a clear name and prompt.
- 3Tell Notis to use the new email as context, list Better Stack on-call schedules, and summarize coverage in the run report.
- 4Choose New Gmail Message Received as the trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real schedule-related email.
Questions about this workflow
Does this workflow change an on-call schedule?
No. It uses the List On-Call Schedules action to retrieve schedules and summarize the returned details.
Can it identify a particular person's coverage?
Notis can summarize the schedule data Better Stack returns. Include the person or coverage question in the incoming email when relevant.
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