Reassign the Incident

PagerDuty Incident Management

Description: Reassign the incident to a different escalation policy or user.

Instructions:

  1. If you have not done so already, please follow our instructions to Create an Incident Workflow.
  2. When you are prompted to add actions , select this action.
  3. Enter the following Inputs and then click Save. Continue following instructions to Publish the Workflow. When the action runs, you will see the Outputs listed below.

Inputs

NameDescription
Reassign toSelect the Escalation Policy or User tab, and then search or select who you'd like to reassign the incident to.

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Resolved Incidents

Please note that it is not possible to reassign resolved incidents. Running this action on a resolved incident will generate an error in the incident's timeline: Failed to reassign the incident because it is already resolved.

Outputs

NameDescription
ResultValue that shows if the action was successful or not. Either "Success" or "Failed."
Result SummaryBrief description of what the action did or if it failed.
ErrorBrief description that is populated if the action failed.