Quiet a monitor during confirmed maintenance
When a message confirms maintenance on a known monitor, mute its alerts without switching tools to handle the change.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Mute Monitor
Mute a monitor in datadog. temporarily silences alerts from a monitor, which is useful during maintenance windows, deployments, or when investigating known issues to prevent alert fatigue.
Why this helps
Teams can forget to silence a monitor for planned work, leaving everyone to filter out predictable alerts.
- Mute a monitor in response to a relevant maintenance confirmation.
- Use monitor identification and timing context from the email or instruction.
- Reduce avoidable alert noise during known work.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation instructing Notis to mute only the clearly identified monitor for confirmed maintenance.
- 3Pick New Gmail Message Received as the trigger.
- 4Choose where Notis should send run reports.
- 5Test with a confirmation that names the monitor and maintenance context.
Questions about this workflow
Will this unmute the monitor after maintenance?
No. This action mutes a monitor. Use a separate automation with an appropriate trigger and the Unmute Monitor action if you need automatic restoration.
What if the email does not identify a monitor?
Have Notis flag the ambiguity in the run report instead of muting an uncertain monitor.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Gmail triggers
Datadog actions
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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