March 24, 2025
I Automated Splunk Alerts With Tines In 1 & 5 Minutes – Here’s What Happened
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide About / Comments Overview: This Tines project was sparked from a curiosity of what may be possible with the Tines automation platform… I gave myself one minute to automate a Splunk Linux server alert using Tines. Then added 4 minutes to that (to give a total of 5 minutes) […]
Read MoreHow I Automated YouTube RSS Subscription Feeds to Discord
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide Fatal Flaw Fix! About / Comments Overview: This is a great story that allows you to make/create your own custom/curated YouTube subscription feed based off of various channels. This feed is created in XML/RSS format, so should be compatible with any RSS feed tools, but also perfect for customization […]
Read MoreHow to Use Tines Webhook Action As A Trigger Source [Self Contained Example]
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide About / Comments Overview: This Tines story will setup a Tines Webhook action as a receiver for JSON content/data coming from an HTTP request. This is a great option if you want/need to get access to JSON (or other) data in Tines that is currently being used outside of […]
Read MoreHow to Use Tines Event Transform Explode Mode for JSON Arrays
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide About / Comments https://youtu.be/njEw73BrgTY Overview: This Tines story will show how I mainly use the Tines Event Transform action set with Explode mode. This is great if you want to create unique events in Tines per item retrieved from something like an array object. Some concepts you will need […]
Read MoreClean Up Tines Automation Event Data with Event Transform Actions
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide About / Comments https://youtu.be/2nnqbJsGrkQ Overview: This Tines story will setup a Tines Event Transform action and demonstrate how to standardize and clean up data from preceding actions in a Tines automation story using the Event Transform action set to Message mode. This continues demonstrating how I mainly use the […]
Read MoreProper Tines Payload Formatting to Fix Automation Issues
Table of Contents: Video Overview Guide About / Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txk9lz3ONmg Overview: This demonstration will detail some of the basics of plain code vs builder view in Tines payloads, as well as showing how important using the proper formatting can be for determining how the data gets processed. Some concepts you will need to be familiar […]
Read MoreTines / Splunk – Automated Customized Alerts
Simple overview: This Tines/Splunk project receives alerts from Splunk running on a server crawling through access logs, user event logs, and nginx logs based on pre-set thresholds or events to trigger the alert. Although Splunk provides adequate alerting actions out of the box, I decided to integrate their webhook alert function with Tines. Not only […]
Read MoreTines – Command Based Inputs Project
Simple overview: Command based input (i.e. chatbot) to receive specific results based on the command input. Currently works for receiving the most recent relevant Google search news result for the keyword(s) you supply or a command to receive a current stock market quote of the supplied stock ticker. This is basically just a “for fun” […]
Read MoreTines – IoT Project
Simple overview: Receive notifications to phone via HTTPS requests/webhooks from an arduino controller paired with an internet/gps sim shield. Potentially remote control the device via reverse method. This Tines Automation project started out as a simple project using IFTTT’s applet service. The original applet service was simply integrating smart home control with 3rd party […]
Read MoreTines – News Updates
Simple overview: This story is basically the same conceptually as the server status story with the core difference that this automatically receives any news posted to a specific/specified Google alert RSS feed for any updates to those feeds. Once an update is triggered, it will receive the feed, parse the feed for relevant data and […]
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