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Keep a Datadog dashboard aligned with changing sheet inputs

When key reporting inputs change, carry the update into the dashboard your team already uses.

Trigger

Cell Range Values Changed

Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.

Action

Update Dashboard

Update a dashboard in datadog. updates an existing dashboard with new configuration, widgets, or layout while preserving its identity and creation metadata.

Why this helps

A dashboard can keep showing an outdated view after its source assumptions or business inputs have changed.

  • Prompt dashboard updates when key inputs change.
  • Reduce missed reporting maintenance.
  • Keep dashboard changes tied to a run report.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Google Sheets and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, then choose New Automation.
  • 3Describe which existing dashboard to update and what change the sheet should prompt.
  • 4Choose the Cell Range Values Changed trigger and select where run reports go.
  • 5Test with one real example range change.

Questions about this workflow

Does this create a new dashboard?

No. This workflow updates an existing dashboard. Use the dashboard update requirements in your instruction.

What dashboard reference is needed?

Identify the existing dashboard and describe the desired configuration or widget change.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Google Sheets to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Google Sheets triggers

Datadog actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Create Dashboard

Create a dashboard in datadog. dashboards provide customizable visualizations for monitoring your infrastructure, applications, and business metrics in a unified view.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Create downtime

Creates a new downtime in datadog to suppress alerts during maintenance windows or planned outages. useful for preventing false alarms during deployments or maintenance.

ActionInstant

Aggregate Metric Changed

Triggers when an aggregate metric (SUM/COUNT/AVG/MIN/MAX) changes in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. This trigger monitors an aggregate calculation on a target column (optionally filtered by a search column/value) and fires when the calculated result changes.

TriggerPolling

Create event

Creates a new event in datadog. events are useful for tracking deployments, outages, configuration changes, and other important occurrences.

ActionInstant

Cell Range Values Changed

Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.

TriggerPolling

Create monitor

Creates a new datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.

ActionInstant

Conditional Format Rule Changed

Triggers when conditional formatting rules change in a Google Spreadsheet. Detects when rules are added, updated, or removed. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.

TriggerPolling

Create SLO

Create a service level objective (slo) in datadog. slos help you define and track reliability targets for your services, enabling data-driven decisions about service quality and reliability investments.

ActionInstant

Data Validation Rule Changed

Triggers when data validation rules change (added/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.

TriggerPolling

Create Synthetic API Test

Create a synthetic api test in datadog. creates a new synthetic api test that continuously monitors api endpoints from multiple locations worldwide. useful for proactive monitoring of api uptime, performance, and functionality.

ActionInstant

Developer Metadata Changed

Triggers when developer metadata entries change (new/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.

TriggerPolling

Create Webhook

Create a webhook in datadog. webhooks enable you to receive notifications from datadog monitors and alerts to external services and applications.

ActionInstant

Filtered Range Values Changed

Polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets filtered ranges for value changes. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect when values matching a data filter change. Emits the matched values when changes are detected.

TriggerPolling

Delete Dashboard

Delete a dashboard in datadog. permanently removes a dashboard from your organization. this action cannot be undone. use with caution.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Google Sheets and Datadog, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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Do this · Action

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