Create Incident

Create a new incident within your PagerDuty instance.

Input

Field	Definition	Type	Required
Incident
Service Key	Key assigned to a service integration to send events to your PagerDuty instance and creates incidents on your service.	Text	TRUE
Event Type	One of: trigger, acknowledge, or resolve.	Dropdown	FALSE
Description	A short description of the incident.	Text	TRUE
Client	The name of the client application that's integrated with your PagerDuty instance.	Text	FALSE
Client URL	URL of an integrated application or component.	Text	FALSE
Incident Key	A unique key for the incident.	Text	FALSE
Detsails	Free-form details from an event in your PagerDuty instance.
Ping Time:	Time (in milliseconds) for PagerDuty's monitoring tools to reach a host.	Number	FALSE
Load Avg	Average number of incidents per team.	Number	FALSE
Contexts	Additional information such as graphs or images that can be attached to an incident. Only used for trigger events.
Type	Type of context; link or image.	Dropdown	FALSE
URL	URL for the context resource.	Text	FALSE
Text	Text for the context asset that's attached to the incident.	Text	FALSE

Output

Field	Definition	Type
Incident Key	Parameter that identifies the incident to which a PagerDuty trigger event should be applied. An incident key helps prevent duplication of incidents.	Text

Related topics

PagerDuty connector

Workflow elements

PagerDuty REST API