ApproveThis manages your Dotcom Monitor Integration approvals.

When Monitoring Meets Approval Power

Let’s cut through the noise: Downtime costs money, but knee-jerk reactions cost more. Dotcom Monitor tells you when your site’s on fire. ApproveThis decides who grabs the extinguisher. Together, they turn panic into process.

For teams managing 50-5,000 employees, this combo isn’t about shiny features – it’s about closing the gap between “Something’s wrong!” and “We’ve fixed it.” Without paperwork delays. Without CC’ing the whole company. Without losing your damn mind.

Why This Integration Doesn’t Suck

Most monitoring tools scream alerts. Most approval tools drown you in forms. Here’s where we’re different:

• No license tax: Your CTO approves server reboot? Cool. They don’t need Dotcom Monitor login. Just email.
• No approval limbo: Critical alerts auto-create approval tickets. No manual copy-paste from Slack.
• No “Who’s on vacation?”: ApproveThis auto-reassigns if your network admin’s off-grid.

Real example: A healthcare SaaS company cut outage response time from 4 hours to 18 minutes. How? Dotcom Monitor detected API failures → ApproveThis routed to on-call engineer + compliance officer simultaneously. Fix deployed before their morning standup.

Use Cases That Don’t Feel Like Corporate BS

1. “Shit’s Down” Protocol for E-Commerce

Scenario: Your checkout page goes dark at 2AM. Dotcom Monitor pings ApproveThis. Workflow:

1. Auto-alert to DevOps lead
2. If no response in 15 mins, escalate to CTO
3. Simultaneously notify legal team (GDPR breach risk)

Why it works: Approval thresholds mean $10k/hour outages skip junior staff. Calculated fields in ApproveThis auto-prioritize based on revenue impact.

2. Change Management for FinTech

Problem: Every server config change needs 3 approvals. Old way? Tickets got lost between Jira, email, and a Post-It. New way:

Dotcom Monitor detects configuration drift → ApproveThis pings security team + sysadmin + auditor via email. Sequential approval enforced. Audit trail auto-generated.

Bonus: Vacation delegation means if your CISO is at DEF CON, their deputy gets auto-assigned.

3. Client Reporting for Agencies

Here’s the kicker: Your clients don’t care about your uptime stats. Until they do. Connect Dotcom Monitor data to approval workflows for:

- Auto-generated SLA compliance reports needing client sign-off
- Emergency maintenance windows requiring stakeholder approval
- Post-mortem analyses routed to appropriate teams

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis’s calculated fields to auto-flag SLA breaches over 0.1%. Because yes, clients notice.

Setting This Up Without Losing Your Mind

Zapier makes this stupidly simple. Here’s the cheat sheet:

1. Create your Zap
2. Trigger: Dotcom Monitor’s “Device Alert”
3. Action: ApproveThis “Create Request”
4. Map these fields:
- Alert severity → Approval priority
- Device type → Assigned team
- Downtime duration → SLA breach % (use calculated fields)

Test with a fake outage. Seriously. Trigger a test alert on your staging server. If your phone doesn’t blow up with approval requests, you did it wrong.

Who Actually Benefits? (Spoiler: Not Just IT)

Customer Support Teams

When Dotcom Monitor flags slow API response:
- ApproveThis auto-requests comms team to update status page
- Simultaneously routes compensation approval (free month?) to CS lead

Procurement & Vendor Management

Server constantly overutilized?
Dotcom Monitor data + ApproveThis workflows can:
- Trigger cloud capacity upgrade approvals
- Route vendor penalty clauses to legal
- Automate renewal negotiations with uptime stats

Finance Teams

Uptime directly impacts revenue? Connect the dots:
- SLA credit requests auto-generated from outage data
- Hosting cost approvals tied to performance metrics
- Budget increases routed with real infrastructure needs

What You’re Not Using (But Should)

ApproveThis isn’t just about forwarding alerts. Layer in these features:

Approval Thresholds:
Auto-approve server reboots under $5k impact. Escalate anything above.

Consensus vs. Sequential:
Need 3/5 SREs to approve a major change? Set it once. Done.

Dynamic Fields:
Auto-calculate downtime costs based on:
- Peak vs. off-peak hours
- Impacted regions
- Historical revenue data

Common Screw-Ups to Avoid

1. Over-approving: Don’t route every ping check. Set thresholds in Dotcom Monitor first.
2. Under-documenting: ApproveThis comments field should auto-pull:
- Affected endpoints
- Initial error codes
- Recent deployment history
3. Ignoring time zones: Approval groups should follow the sun for global teams.

Bottom Line: This Isn’t About Tools

It’s about fixing the disconnect between knowing something’s broken and getting permission to fix it. For companies scaling past 50 employees, that gap widens daily.

ApproveThis + Dotcom Monitor via Zapier isn’t another SaaS combo – it’s your insurance against growth-induced chaos. Set up the integration in an afternoon. Save 12 hours/month on outage paperwork. Look like the hero who actually made monitoring useful.

Get Started Free or schedule a 15-minute crash demo. We’ll show you how to connect Dotcom Monitor alerts to approval workflows that don’t suck.