Read about the PagerDuty’s May 2022 Product Updates.
View product demos, catch a glimpse of our new products, and learn more about how you can:
- Quickly and easily find what you need with the new on-call scheduling UI. Keep stakeholders informed with the necessary level of content and context within status update notification templates during Incident Response
- Leverage new PagerDuty® Process Automation and PagerDuty® Runbook Automation plugins to empower first-responders to run automated diagnostics on AWS infrastructure and applications reducing escalations to and engagement of others
- For AIOps, you can now Copy & Paste Rules in Event Orchestration (Available to all plans)
- Take action on webhook Integration requirements and try out our most recently updated PagerDuty App for Splunk from our Partner Ecosystem
- Stay in the know with Webhook V1/V2 Product Deprecations and User Administration call to actions
- Sign up for upcoming Events view our recent Podcasts and Twitch Streams, and join members of our Community Team and Product Teams as they walk you through new products and leading practices in the software industry
Enjoy the following new product updates and enhancements:
1. Incident Response
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Schedules List UI Refresh
The new visual experience on our Schedules page is now generally available on all accounts. This redesign helps our customers:- Enhanced search functionality
- Toggling between all schedules and team schedules
- Collapsing or expanding information based on the level of detail needed
- Easier schedule comparison with time windows displayed
- Streamlined view of on-call responders with shift times
Early access rollout to accounts is ongoing.
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Status Update Notification Templates
Our new notification templates give you standardized and reusable formatting for status updates during incidents. You can now:- Easily include common incident details via a drop-down menu that populates key information
- Add logos, hosted third-party images, and other contextual information, as needed
- Ensure updates consistently adhere to your company’s internal communication standards
This feature has already started ramping to customers and should reach all customers by mid June.
See it in action: Status Update Notification Template Editor Demo
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New SMS Formatting Standard for Incident Notifications (including Status Updates)
We’re standardizing the way that incident notifications are formatted for SMS notifications. As of May 23rd, all SMS incident notifications (including status updates) now start with the prefix [PagerDuty]
Learn more about notifications
2. PagerDuty® Process Automation Software and PagerDuty® Runbook Automation
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New AWS Plugins for Automated Diagnostics
Want to reduce the amount of people pulled in to troubleshoot incidents? PagerDuty® Process Automation already helps first responders fetch diagnostic data typically only retrievable by domain-experts… Now users can get up and running with auto-diagnostics for the AWS faster via new AWS plugins. The Amazon CloudWatch Logs Plugin retrieves diagnostic data from AWS infrastructure and applications, while the AWS Systems Manager plugin allows users to manage their global VM footprint with security best-practices.
3. AIOps
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Event Orchestration: Copy/Paste Event Rules
Ever wanted to reuse service rule configurations to avoid re-configuring rule conditions and actions from scratch? You can now simply “copy” any Service Orchestration rule and then “paste” that rule into any Service Orchestration to reuse rule conditions and actions. The best part? You can still have the ability to tweak those conditions/actions for each specific service/orchestration.
Learn more about Event Orchestration or Copying Service Rules
3. User Administration
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Email Domain Restriction Verification – Action Required!
PagerDuty has changed the default setting for the “Email Domain Restriction” Feature in the Account Settings to be “ON” by default (the current setting is OFF). Since April 15th, this has automatically been enabled for customers and through this update, email domains will be restricted only to domains that are owned by the account. This applies only to login email addresses, and not contact method email addresses.
The following exceptions apply to the automatic enablement of the Email Domain Restriction feature for existing customers:
- Email addresses using common carrier domains (yahoo, gmail, aol etc.) will not be restricted
- The restriction will not be enabled for accounts with more than 10 email domains.
ACTION: Account owners should please check that the settings and email (sub)domains are set appropriately for your needs. For further details on this topic, please refer to the knowledge base.
4. Integrations & Partner Ecosystem
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PagerDuty App for Splunk v4.0.1
Ever feel like you’re spending too much time managing alert configurations and settings or feel overwhelmed by alert storms? Now, generally available, the latest PagerDuty App for Splunk (v4.0.1) now enables PagerDuty and Splunk customers to:
- Allow PagerDuty to leverage the Splunk Alerts framework to save time and energy
- Streamline and group incident data within PagerDuty in a way that makes sense to you to reduce alert noise and information overload
Learn more in the splunkbase
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Webhooks IP Addresses
Do you have any webhooks configured in PagerDuty? If so, please be aware that since May 5, 2022, the official list of IP addresses that PagerDuty uses to send Webhooks calls have been provided on this page.
Please safelist those IP addresses to ensure service continuity.
Learn more about webhooks IPs
5. Product Deprecations
Please take note and keep your teams informed of our upcoming product deprecations:
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V1/V2 Webhooks
If you are currently using V1/V2 webhook extensions in your PagerDuty environment, you need to migrate them to V3 webhook subscriptions to maintain functionality. Please follow our migration guide.
Important Dates:
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V1 Webhooks – V1 webhook extensions became unsupported (no new features or bug fixes) since November 13, 2021 and will stop working in October, 2022.
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V2 Webhooks – V2 webhook extensions will be unsupported in October, 2022 and will stop working in March, 2023.
Required Permissions:
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Admins or Account Owners can migrate an entire account.
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Team Managers can only migrate webhooks for their assigned Teams.
What are Webhooks? Webhooks allow you to receive HTTP callbacks when significant events happen in your PagerDuty account, for example, when an incident triggers, escalates, or resolves. Details about the event are sent to your specified URL, such as Slack or your own custom PagerDuty webhook processor.
If you have any questions, please reach out to your PagerDuty contact or our support team at support@pagerduty.com.
Learn more about webhooks
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If your team could benefit from any of these enhancements, be sure to contact your account manager and sign up for a 14-day free trial.