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PagerDuty

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Summary​

PagerDuty is an alert and on-call management platform. You can use PagerDuty to drive insights into values such as:

  • On-call rotation
  • Escalation policies
  • Trigger incidents

Setup​

In order to connect Cortex to your PagerDuty instance, you’ll need to create a PagerDuty API Key, and add it under Settings → PagerDuty.

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If you do not see the Settings page you're looking for in the sidebar, you likely don't have the proper permissions and need to contact your admin.

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You can use a Read Only key if you do not wish to use the Trigger Incident feature in the Catalog.

On-call​

Discovery​

By default, Cortex will try to "best-guess" the corresponding Service entity in PagerDuty. Cortex first looks up a PagerDuty Service using the name (e.g. My Service), then the service identifier (e.g. my-service). For example, if your service name is “My Service”, then the corresponding Service in PagerDuty should also be “My Service”.

Catalog descriptor​

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You can only set up one of the three options below per Service or Resource.

PagerDuty Service​

You can find the service ID value by visiting PagerDuty → Configuration → Services. The URL for the service will contain the ID, for example: https://cortexapp.pagerduty.com/services/<ID>

x-cortex-oncall:
  pagerduty:
    id: ASDF1234 # Service ID
    type: SERVICE

Schedules​

You can find the Schedule ID by vising PagerDuty → People → On-call Schedules and clicking on the desired schedule. The ID is found in the URL, for example https://cortexapp.pagerduty.com/schedules#<ID>.

x-cortex-oncall:
  pagerduty:
    id: ASDF1234 # Schedule ID
    type: SCHEDULE
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The Trigger Incident feature in the Catalog only works with PagerDuty Services.

Escalation Policy​

You can find the Escalation Policy ID by vising PagerDuty → People → Escalation Policies and clicking on the desired policy. The ID is found in the URL, for example https://cortexapp.pagerduty.com/escalation_policies#<ID>.

x-cortex-oncall:
  pagerduty:
    id: ASDF1234 # Escalation Policy ID
    type: ESCALATION_POLICY