Link Incident Notification Channel in Microsoft Teams
AvailabilityThis workflow action is available on Business and Enterprise for Incident Management pricing plans. Contact the Sales Team to upgrade to an account with this action.
Description
Link a specified Microsoft Teams channel to an incident.
Instructions
- If you have not done so, follow the instructions to Create an Incident Workflow.
- When the instructions prompt you to add actions, select this action.
- Enter the following Inputs and click Save.
- Continue following instructions to Publish the Workflow.
- When the action runs, you will see the Outputs listed below.
Inputs
Field ReferencesFields with the {+} icon accept Field References, which can be useful for referencing incident data or outputs created in prior workflow steps. To add Field References, click {+}, or enter
{{, and select relevant fields. Refer to the Field References article for more information.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Teams Organization | Name of the Microsoft Teams Organization the channel is in. Example: PagerDuty. |
| Microsoft Teams Team | Name of the Microsoft Teams Team the channel belongs to. Example: SRE Team. |
| Microsoft Teams Team Channel | Name of the channel inside the specified Team to link to the incident. Examples: general, incidents, sre-war-room. |
Outputs
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Channel Name | The name of the newly created Microsoft Teams channel. |
| Channel URL | The web URL to the newly created channel. |
| Result | Value that shows if the action was successful or not. Either Success or Failed. |
| Result Summary | Brief description of what the action did, or a summary of the failure reason if it did not succeed. |
| Error | Description of the error, populated only if the action failed. |
| MS Teams Team ID | The internal ID of the Microsoft Teams team associated with the linked channel. |
| MS Teams Channel ID | The internal ID of the linked Microsoft Teams channel. |
Examples
Example 1: Automatically link a war room channel during a major incident
When a high-severity incident is triggered, use this action to automatically link your sre-war-room channel in the SRE Team within your PagerDuty Microsoft Teams organization. Pair this with a notification action that sends the Channel URL output to responders, so the entire team has immediate access to the coordination channel.
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