Triggers and Events

Deep dive into all trigger types and how to configure event-based automation starts.

Trigger Types Overview

NeuraFlow offers four categories of triggers: webhooks, schedules, file events, and service events. Each type can be configured with filters to ensure your automation only runs when the right conditions are met.

Scheduled Triggers

Use cron expressions to run automations on a schedule. Common patterns include hourly syncs, daily reports, and weekly cleanup tasks. The scheduler runs in UTC and supports second-level precision.

# Every 15 minutes
*/15 * * * *

# Daily at 2 AM UTC
0 2 * * *

# Every Monday at 9 AM
0 9 * * 1

# First day of every month
0 0 1 * *

File Event Triggers

Monitor cloud storage buckets (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) for file uploads, modifications, or deletions. Filters support glob patterns to target specific file types or directories.

Service Event Triggers

Connect to integrated services and react to their native events — new Salesforce records, GitHub pull requests, Stripe payments, Slack messages, and hundreds more.

Use trigger filters to reduce noise. Instead of processing every event, filter on specific field values to only start the automation when relevant.