diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh
index 392b4e2..b77eb56 100755
--- a/common.sh
+++ b/common.sh
@@ -319,6 +319,15 @@ notify() {
 
     log "$ICON_NOTIFY Sending notification: $subject — $message"
 
+    # A dry run must not page anyone. It reaches this line by walking the same branches a real run
+    # would, so a --dry-run failover was one populated webhook away from alerting the operator at
+    # 4am about an outage nothing was acting on. The line above still records what WOULD have been
+    # sent, which is the part a preview is for.
+    if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-false}" == true ]]; then
+        log "$ICON_NOTIFY DRY RUN — notification not sent"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
     if [[ "${NOTIFY_UNRAID:-false}" == true ]]; then
         if platform_send_os_notification "$message" "$subject" "$severity"; then
             log "$ICON_NOTIFY OS notification sent"