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Dispatch security alerts to the right team, instantly

Forward security events from Workspace to the appropriate response team or ticketing system, without manual triage or mailbox monitoring.

Who it is forSecurity operations or IT teams responsible for incident response across Workspace domains.
APIsAdmin SDK, Gmail API
Typical scopesadmin.reports.audit.readonly, gmail.send

The problem

Workspace logs and alerts surface in the Admin console, but there is no reliable way to route them to the right people or systems in real time. Manual monitoring is slow and error-prone, and critical events may go unnoticed until it’s too late.

How it works

  1. Use a delegated service account to poll or subscribe to the Admin SDK Reports API for new security events.
  2. Parse incoming alerts, apply routing logic (by severity, product, or user group).
  3. Send alerts via Gmail API to the relevant on-call or ticketing system address, grouping or threading as needed.
  4. Log outcomes and failures for audit and troubleshooting.

What changes

Security events are routed to the correct team or system within seconds, reducing response time and avoiding missed incidents.

The trap in this one. The Reports API can lag by several minutes after the actual event, and sometimes omits transient or low-severity events entirely. Relying on a fixed polling interval risks missing short-lived alerts or duplicating delivery if you re-poll too aggressively; deduplicate by event ID, not timestamp, as IDs can arrive out of order.

Questions people ask

Can this catch every Workspace security event?

No. Some events are delayed, and others may never be surfaced by the Reports API, especially if Google deems them low priority or internal.

What if the destination system rate-limits email?

Batch or throttle sends, and implement retry with backoff. Unhandled bounces can silently drop critical alerts.

Want this built?

This is a pattern we run in production. We will set up the delegation and build this on top of it — $500 per hour, most of it working the same day.

Talk to us Or read the setup guide

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