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# Automations

> Automations is an emnify platform feature for event-driven rules that trigger automated actions, such as email notifications, based on emnify system events.

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](/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**: one of the events in the Portal's **Choose event type** dropdown, such as a daily data threshold.
  These include selected [system events](/system-events/event-types) and custom events with configurable parameters, but not every system event can trigger a rule.
* **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](/portal/automations).
  For step-by-step instructions, see [Manage Automations](/portal/how-tos/manage-automations).
* **emnify REST API**: create and manage automations programmatically with the [emnify REST API](/developers/api).