Automation examples

A collection of ready-made automation ideas for InfraNest — perfect if you're not sure where to start or just want inspiration for your next automation.

Overview

• Each example below can be built in a few minutes under Automations → New automation, or you can start faster from the Templates tab.
• They cover common needs like expiry warnings, outage handling, and connecting InfraNest to your own tools.
• Use them as-is, or adapt the trigger, conditions, and actions to fit your setup.

Warn the team about expiring domains

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Under When this happens, choose the Domain expiring event as your Trigger.
3. Select Add condition and set Days until expiry to less than 14.
4. Under Do this, add the Send notification action.
5. Add a second action: Open maintenance window.
6. Select Save automation.

Tag and announce a monitor outage

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Choose Monitor alert as your Trigger.
3. Add the Add issue labels action and enter "incident" under Labels (comma-separated).
4. Add a second action: Post status-page announcement.
5. Select Save automation.

Auto-resolve a recovered incident

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Choose Monitor resumed as your Trigger.
3. Under Do this, add the Resolve incident action.
4. Select Save automation.

Keep new domains protected

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Choose Domain added as your Trigger.
3. Add the Set auto-renew action.
4. Select Save automation.

Push events to your own tools

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Under When this happens, choose any event you'd like to react to — for example Server removed or Certificate expiring.
3. Under Do this, add the Call webhook action.
4. Fill in the URL field with your system's address, and optionally add a Payload (JSON, optional).
5. Select Save automation.

Harden every new server

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Choose Server added as your Trigger.
3. Add the Enable delete protection action.
4. Add a second action: any backup-related action available for your server.
5. Select Save automation.

Reboot a server when its monitor goes down

1. Go to Automations and select New automation.
2. Choose Monitor alert as your Trigger.
3. Select Add condition and set Status to equals "down".
4. Under Do this, add the Reboot server action.
5. Add a second action: Send notification.
6. Select Save automation.

TipAdd conditions to keep rules focused — for example, only domains with a certain tag, or only certificates flagged as weak.