Count completed Salesforce follow-up in Datadog
Give completed tasks a simple metric signal, so follow-through is easier to review over time.
Trigger
Task Created or Completed
Triggers when a Task is created or when its status changes to Completed in Salesforce. Supports optional filtering by task Status or Subject.
Action
Submit metrics
Submits custom metrics to datadog. useful for sending application-specific metrics, business kpis, or custom performance indicators.
Why this helps
Teams often have to count completed work by hand when preparing a follow-up or workload review.
- Make task completion activity queryable.
- Reduce manual counts of completed follow-up.
- Review activity trends using Datadog metrics.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Salesforce and Datadog once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis from any channel.
- 3Ask Notis in one instruction to submit a Datadog custom metric when a Salesforce task changes to Completed, and provide the metric name.
- 4Pick the Task Created or Completed trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real completed task and inspect the submission.
Questions about this workflow
Does the trigger include task completion?
Yes. It triggers when a task is created or when its status changes to Completed.
Will the metric show historical completion totals?
No. The workflow submits on trigger events and does not backfill task history.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Salesforce triggers
Datadog actions
Recurring trigger
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Account Created or Updated
Triggers when an Account is created or updated in Salesforce. Uses LastModifiedDate high-watermark to capture both creations and updates.
Create event
Creates a new event in datadog. events are useful for tracking deployments, outages, configuration changes, and other important occurrences.
Contact Updated
Triggers when an existing Salesforce Contact record is modified. Emits changed fields alongside relevant timestamps.
Create monitor
Creates a new datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.
Record Updated (Generic SObject)
Triggers when monitored fields change on any Salesforce SObject. You specify the SObject type and which field values should be returned in the payload. The trigger uses SystemModstamp to detect changes regardless of which specific field changed.
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New Contact Trigger
Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.
Create Synthetic API Test
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New Lead Trigger
Triggers when a new Lead is created in Salesforce.
Create Webhook
Create a webhook in datadog. webhooks enable you to receive notifications from datadog monitors and alerts to external services and applications.
New or Updated Opportunity
Triggers when a Salesforce Opportunity is created or updated.
Delete Dashboard
Delete a dashboard in datadog. permanently removes a dashboard from your organization. this action cannot be undone. use with caution.
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