IT OPS

Shadow-IT Discovery: Correlate SSO Logins with Expense Charges into a Review Queue

Cross-references SSO authentication events with corporate-card SaaS charges to surface apps employees use that IT never approved.

CategoryIT Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule fires
  • ActionQuery Datadog SSO auth events for app domains + user countsDatadogDatadog
  • ActionRead expense ledger CSV and isolate recurring SaaS chargesGoogle DriveGoogle Drive
  • LogicJoin on domain, drop sanctioned allowlist apps
  • ActionCreate a Monday review-queue item per unsanctioned appmonday.com
  • OutputPost run summary to Slack #it-opsSlack

What it does

It pulls recent SSO login events and recurring software charges from your expense export, joins them on vendor domain, and removes anything already on your sanctioned-app allowlist. Every remaining app — a real tool people are paying for or signing into without IT's blessing — lands as a triaged card in a Monday board so your team can review it instead of discovering it during an audit.

When to use it

Run it weekly when you want a living inventory of unsanctioned SaaS rather than a once-a-year spreadsheet scramble. It is the entry point for the rest of the shadow-IT pipeline.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly schedule fires the workflow.
  2. 2It queries Datadog for SSO/auth log events and extracts the destination app domains and user counts.
  3. 3In parallel it reads the expense ledger CSV from Google Drive and isolates recurring SaaS line items by merchant.
  4. 4A logic step joins both sources on normalized domain and drops any app present in the sanctioned allowlist.
  5. 5For each surviving app it creates a Monday item with discovery source, user count, and monthly spend pre-filled.
  6. 6A Slack message summarizes how many new unsanctioned apps were queued this run.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  2. 2
    Connect Google DriveDocs, sheets, slides, files.
  3. 3
    Connect monday.comVisual work management for teams.
  4. 4
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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