PagerDuty Actions¶
Actions are the operations (or API operations) that you can perform on PagerDuty by a simple drag and drop and data mapping of elements and values from input trigger, derived values using formulas or a desired constant that you may wish to map.
All of the actions that you see below automate what you can do manually on PagerDuty.
As shown below, you can Create or Update Incident and User in your PagerDuty account in response to a trigger event.
Set up PagerDuty action in your workflow¶
Create Incident¶
After selecting the action as "Create Incident" as above, you can continue to configure or set up your action parameter that will define the incident in the PagerDuty application.
Impacted Services¶
The services name that the incident is created against.
Assign To¶
- User - This is the user to be assigned to the new incident. If
User
is chosen, then a drop-down list of all users will be provided. - Escalation Policy - If
Escalation Policy
is chosen, then a drop-down list of all escalation policies will be provided.
Title¶
The name of the incident.
Description¶
The description of the incident.
Urgency¶
Can be High or Low.
Update Incident¶
After selecting the action as "Update Incident", you can continue configuring incidents to be updated. For this, you have the option to set And
or Or
condition to the incident fields/attributes.
Create User¶
Name¶
Name of the user to be created.
Email¶
Email address of the user to be created.
Base Role¶
Defines the access rule of the user in the PagerDuty account. Can be a Global Admin, Manager, Responder, Team Responder, Observer, Stakeholder, Restricted Access.
Job title¶
Describes the job title of the user created.
Update User¶
After selecting the action as "Update User", you can continue configuring users to be updated. For this, you have the option to set And
or Or
condition to the user fields/attributes.