Analyze Datadog spans after channel activity
Turn a channel change into a focused performance investigation across your services.
Trigger
New YouTube Activity
Triggers when a new activity is detected on a YouTube channel.
Action
Search Spans Analytics
Search and analyze span data with aggregations in datadog. this action uses the datadog spans analytics api to perform advanced queries and aggregations on trace span data. it's essential for: - analyzing error rates and latency patterns - understanding service dependencies and bottlenecks - root cause analysis during incidents - performance monitoring and optimization the api supports complex queries with grouping, filtering, and various aggregation functions similar to log analytics.
Why this helps
Performance regressions can hide in span data while teams focus on the visible content change.
- Find latency patterns faster
- Connect content events to service behavior
- Focus investigations on a defined window
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect YouTube and Datadog in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation and specify the span query, services, aggregations, and time window.
- 3Tell Notis to run Datadog span analytics after each new YouTube activity and summarize anomalies.
- 4Pick New YouTube Activity as the trigger.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one activity.
Questions about this workflow
What query does it run?
The span query and aggregations you define in the instruction.
Can it fix detected latency?
No. It returns analysis for your team to act on.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Youtube to Datadog. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Youtube triggers
Datadog actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Dashboard
Create a dashboard in datadog. dashboards provide customizable visualizations for monitoring your infrastructure, applications, and business metrics in a unified view.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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.
New YouTube Activity
Triggers when a new activity is detected on a YouTube channel.
Create event
Creates a new event in datadog. events are useful for tracking deployments, outages, configuration changes, and other important occurrences.
New Item in YouTube Playlist
Triggers when a new item is added to a YouTube playlist.
Create monitor
Creates a new datadog monitor to track metrics, logs, or other data sources with configurable alerting thresholds and notifications.
New Playlist in YouTube Channel
Triggers when a new playlist is added to a YouTube channel.
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.
New YouTube Channel Subscription
Triggers when a new channel is subscribed.
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.
Create Webhook
Create a webhook in datadog. webhooks enable you to receive notifications from datadog monitors and alerts to external services and applications.
Delete Dashboard
Delete a dashboard in datadog. permanently removes a dashboard from your organization. this action cannot be undone. use with caution.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Youtube and Datadog, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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