Budget breaches into Slack
Use the New Cost Alert trigger, then a Slack message step. A budget breach lands in the channel your team already watches.
Automation
Lineman and Zapier
Trigger Zaps from spend events and pull cost data into thousands of apps.
What this gets you
Zapier connects Lineman to any of Zapier's thousands of apps. The New Cost Alert trigger starts a Zap whenever a Lineman cost alert becomes active. Search steps read spend, savings, allowance, top spenders, members, repositories and cost centres on demand. Action steps write back: set a member's budget, create, update, delete or reorder cost centres, dismiss an alert, or authorise a repository from an alert. A connection can do only what you can do in Lineman, so a member gets their own figures where an administrator gets company-wide ones. The Lineman app is invite-only for now and is not listed in Zapier's public directory, so searching for it there will not find it.
What people use it for
Weekly spend report to a spreadsheet
Zapier's Schedule trigger, then Find Spend Breakdown, then add a row to Google Sheets. That gives you a dated record of the breakdown in the sheet, with no manual export.
Act on an alert automatically
A Zap does not have to stop at reporting. After a New Cost Alert, action steps can set a member's budget, authorise a repository from the alert, or dismiss the alert once it has been handled. Admin actions are refused unless the connected account is an administrator.
More in Automation
- n8nBuild your own workflows on Lineman data with the community n8n node.
- Power AutomateDrive Power Automate flows from Lineman alerts and usage.
- MakeRead spend, savings and alerts from a Make scenario, and use the numbers anywhere Make reaches.
- PipedreamRead spend, savings and alerts from a Pipedream workflow, and pass them to any connected app.
Set up Zapier
The documentation walks through connecting it, what Lineman reads and writes, and the settings worth knowing about.
Read the setup guideLooking for something else?
Every integration in one place, searchable by name and filterable by what it does.
View all integrations