Create Incident

Create a new incident within your PagerDuty instance.

Do not use the New Incident event card and the Create Incident action card together in the same flow. By doing so, you can create a circular reference.

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