10 Zapier apps for DevOps teams and solo devs

Sarah Mischinger -

By now, most DevOps teams and engineers use automation to deploy updates, monitor uptime, and respond to incidents. But there’s still a lot of manual work left, including checking results, sending updates, or moving data from one tool to another. That’s where workflow automation comes in: it lets your tools handle the repetitive tasks so you can focus on what actually needs your attention.

Zapier is a cloud-based workflow automation platform that lets you connect thousands of apps via a visual interface. With it, you can build automated workflows (called Zaps) using your favorite tools, from deployments and monitoring to reporting and alerting.

In this blog post, we'll explore 10 great Zapier integrations for DevOps teams and solo devs, what you can do with them, and how to combine them with other tools on this list.

Email by Zapier

What it is: Zapier’s email integration lets you send emails directly from your Zaps or trigger workflows from an inbound email address. It supports setting custom subjects, body content, and recipient fields, making it easy to add email notifications to your automated processes without connecting to a separate email service.

Use cases:

  • Use the inbound email address as a manual trigger for your workflow, so you can trigger it from anywhere by simply sending an email.
  • Combine it with Globalping to send an alert email when a measurement detects unexpected latency or downtime.
  • Receive an email from a monitoring script and trigger an incident workflow.
  • Send a summary of network test results or uptime data stored in Google Sheets on a weekly or daily basis:

Slack

What it is: Using Slack’s Zapier app, you can send messages to channels or users, create channels, manage members, and react to new messages or mentions. It’s quite useful and popular in many DevOps workflows, and it works well as a tool that sends notifications when something happens in a tool in your workflow.

Use cases:

  • Notify a channel when a new GitHub pull request is opened or a new release is available.
  • Send a message when a Linear issue is marked as urgent.
  • Automatically create a new channel and invite the right people when a critical issue is detected.
  • Send a DM to any user who joins a specific channel, including useful links and information.
  • Create a dedicated channel for Zapier to post Globalping ping or traceroute results:

Discord

What is it: The Discord app allows you to send channel messages, post in forums, direct message users, and manage roles. Unlike Slack, which is popular for internal team communication, Discord is popular in open-source projects and among solo developers who want one central app to communicate with contributors and the wider community.

Use cases:

  • Use a dedicated channel for important events, such as a new release.
  • Post Globalping network test results to a public community server so contributors can follow infrastructure health.
  • Send critical alerts for your team via Discord if you use it privately.
  • Create a forum for contributors and automatically post new GitHub issues there, or only post issues with a specific tag, such as “good first issue”:

Globalping

What is it: Globalping brings distributed network testing to your Zapier workflows. It is an open-source network measurement platform that lets you run ping, traceroute, mtr, HTTP requests, and DNS resolution from thousands of probes worldwide. Using it in your Zap, you can trigger network tests as part of a larger automated workflow and pass the result to other apps.

You can connect to your free Globalping Dashboard account to unlock a higher hourly test allowance, which is optional but probably worth doing if you plan to run tests regularly (or already use Globalping outside of Zapier).

Use cases:

  • Trigger a ping or HTTP test when a new GitHub release is deployed, then post the results to Slack.
  • Check where network problems occur by running traceroute from multiple locations when your uptime monitor reports issues.
  • Schedule DNS lookup tests after making a domain change and log the results to Google Sheets.
  • Log and compare network performance across locations or ISPs using Google Sheets and AI.
  • Use Zapier's AI to summarize a set of Globalping HTTP results and send the summary via email:

GitHub

What is it: The GitHub integration covers a wide range of operations, including managing issues, pull requests, branches, releases, files, and comments. If you or your team use GitHub, you will likely find plenty of opportunities to use the many triggers and actions in your DevOps workflows.

Use cases:

  • Create a GitHub issue when a Globalping measurement result indicates network issues, and add probe and measurement data in the issue’s description.
  • Verify that your service is available across regions by triggering a Globalping HTTP test when you’ve published a new release.
  • Keep configuration or documentation files synced across repositories.
  • Find issues that haven’t been updated for a specified period and add a “stale” label or close them automatically.
  • Add each new GitHub release to Google Sheets, including version, author, and timestamp:

AI by Zapier

What it is: AI by Zapier is a native app that lets you add AI steps into any of your Zaps. You can choose from several models, such as GPT-5 mini or GPT-5 nano, without needing a separate account. If you want to use a model from Google or Anthropic, you need to connect your own account.

Use cases:

  • Analyze a list of ping results in Google Sheets and send a weekly performance summary by email.
  • Take commit messages from new GitHub releases and generate a clean changelog entry.
  • Summarize the Globalping test results in natural language and post them to a Slack or Discord channel.
  • Classify a new GitHub issue and automatically add the appropriate label:

Linear

What it is: Linear is a modern issue-tracking tool built for engineering teams that has become popular with smaller teams who don’t need a full Jira setup. The Zapier integration supports a wide range of triggers and actions around issues, projects, and comments that you can use in your automated workflows.

Use cases:

  • Create a Linear issue from a Globalping measurement with unexpected results and pre-fill it with test and location data.
  • Post a Slack message to the relevant channel when a Linear issue is completed.
  • Automatically label new issues based on keywords in the title, such as adding a "network" label for the word "latency" or "DNS":

Google Sheet

What it is: Google Sheets lets you read, write, and update spreadsheets via Zaps. It is free and can be great to use as a lightweight data or reporting solution for smaller teams and solo developers.

Use cases:

  • Log Globalping ping or HTTP results to a sheet with timestamp, location, latency, and status code to build a simple history.
  • Track how long your team takes to close Linear issues to gain insights into incident response patterns.
  • Provide spreadsheet data to the AI to generate performance or incident summaries, and send them via email:

Digital Ocean

What it is: The DigitalOcean app integrates cloud management into your Zapier workflows. Manage Droplets, SSH keys, domains, and snapshots from one place, which is ideal for any DigitalOcean user looking to automate tasks.

Use cases:

  • Automatically power a Droplet off during a scheduled maintenance window and back on when maintenance is complete.
  • Trigger a Globalping HTTP test after creating a new Droplet to verify it is reachable from multiple regions before you go live.
  • Automatically create a Droplet snapshot before deployment triggered by a new GitHub release, so you can restore it quickly if needed:

Webhooks by Zapier

What it is: Webhooks by Zapier is one of the most versatile apps you can use in your workflows since it lets you send and receive HTTP requests that let you connect a Zap to any tool you use that supports webhooks. This is especially useful for tools that don’t have a Zapier app or don’t provide the functionality you need.

Use cases:

  • Poll a custom metrics endpoint and pass the response to AI for analysis or to Google Sheets for logging.
  • Connect any tool in your stack that supports outgoing webhooks, such as Grafana alerts, self-hosted monitoring scripts, custom services, etc., to the rest of your Zap.
  • Receive a webhook from your self-hosted uptime monitor when a service goes down and trigger a Globalping traceroute to investigate the issue location:

Conclusion

Zapier for DevOps teams and network engineers provides a straightforward way to connect apps and automate daily tasks, including network testing, incident tracking, and reporting.

We hope you found a few apps you'd like to try in your Zaps. If you regularly monitor or test network performance, try the Globalping Zapier integration. It's open source, free to use, and works well with the other apps in this list.