Questions tagged [pagerduty]

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How to change PagerDuty incident name from CloudWatch integration?

I have AWS CloudWatch hooked up with PagerDuty. Whenever an alert goes out, it goes to PagerDuty, which then sends us a message in Slack. The problem is, this is what it shows in the chat: Triggered #3362: Maximum CPUUtilization of 53.6…
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Trigger PagerDuty alert after a number of incidents

Is it possible to only have an alert triggered after a certain number of incidents from an integration? For example, if my application reports a single non-critical failure of a kind, that's worth-while to troubleshoot, but probably not so bad as to…
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Is it a good idea to have a secondary person on call for production operations?

The primary person on call could need help in situations such as: There are too many issues goes on Primary needs to step out for a short amount of time There are certain activities that are better taken up by a secondary person so that the primary…
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Is there any way to get New Relic or PagerDuty to not alert during nightly maintenance?

Initial Problem We have some badly behaved overnight maintenance jobs that cause alerts for AppDex and error rates for our apps. These are metrics that would be problematic if they happened during the day when customers are using the service, but…
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How do we get notified when PagerDuty services are disabled?

We have a small team, and we're just getting started with PagerDuty. We have a very noisy service that has a lot of testing goign on around it. At times, we've had to turn the service off to keep pagers from blowing up, but then forget to turn it…
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What do you tell someone new to going oncall or PagerDutyl?

[[ Based on tags and the wording this sounds like a PagerDuty-specific question, but it could apply to any tech or monitoring stack in my mind.... PagerDuty is just so dominant in SF-based jobs I've seen that is like tech Kleenex.... ]] I've been…
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Pagerduty API integration and auto-resolution

It is possible to implement auto-resolution with Pagerduty API integration. When a monitoring system detects an issue based on some metric and a threshold, it would create a Pagerduty incident through the API integration. Later, if the metric falls…
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