Automations

Automations is an emnify platform feature that lets you define event-driven rules and take automated actions across your device fleet. When a connectivity event occurs, a rule can react automatically, for example by sending an email notification to your team. This gives you a more responsive and observable IoT deployment without building your own monitoring pipeline.

How Automations work

The Automations feature builds on emnify system events. You create a rule that listens for a specific event, define which devices it applies to, and choose the action to take when the event occurs.

A rule has three parts:

• Trigger: a system event (such as a data limit being reached) or a custom event with configurable parameters.
• Target: the devices the rule applies to, either all devices or a filtered subset.
• Action: what happens when the rule matches, such as sending an email notification.

Key capabilities

• Events log: review device and SIM activity across your Workspace in a single, filterable, exportable log.
• Rules: react automatically to connectivity events without polling the API.
• Custom events: extend the predefined system events with configurable thresholds and severity levels.
• Email notifications: notify multiple recipients per rule, including people who aren’t emnify users.

Ways to use Automations

You can work with Automations in two ways:

• emnify Portal: build and manage rules, and browse the events log, in the Automations section of the Portal. For step-by-step instructions, see Manage Automations.
• emnify REST API: create and manage automations programmatically with the emnify REST API.