The Custom Fields feature allows you to enrich PagerDuty incidents with critical and helpful metadata throughout the incident lifecycle. Flexibly define your preferred data, and standardize what information your incidents display. This feature also allows you to aggregate data from several existing systems and populate that information during incident response.

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Availability

This feature is available with the Business, Enterprise for Incident Management and Digital Operations (Legacy) pricing plans. Please contact Sales to upgrade to a plan with this feature.

Configure Custom Fields

Create a Custom Field

After creating an Incident Type, you can add custom fields to that type. Please note that because Incident Types use inheritance, fields will be available to the specific incident type you add, as well as any children of that incident type.

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Custom Fields Availability

On the Base Incident Type, we allow:

• 15 fields for accounts on our Business plan
• 30 fields for accounts on our Enterprise plan for Incident Management

For all other Incident Types, we allow an additional 15 custom fields. For example, your base incident could have 30 fields, and you could add an additional 15 to your major incident. Disabled custom fields do count towards this limit.

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Required User Permissions

Admins and Account Owners can create, edit and delete fields.

1. Navigate to Incidents Incident Types and select an Incident Type, or create a new Incident Type.

2. With the Fields tab selected, click New Field.

3. Enter the following information:

   Field	Instructions
   Display Name	Enter a name for the field that will display on incidents.
   Field Name	Enter a name for use when referencing this field in the API. Can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores. Note: You cannot change this value after initial creation.
   Description	Write a description to help responders understand what this field is or how they should use it.
   Field Type	Select a data type, e.g., Text, Single Select, Multi Select, etc. Note: You cannot change this value after initial creation.
   Set a Default Value	Optionally pre-populate the field for new incidents. This value will not apply to past incidents.
   Enable Field	Select Enable or Disable.

4. Click Create Field. Repeat these steps for as many fields as needed.

Edit a Custom Field

1. Navigate to Incidents Incident Types.
2. Click the menu to the right of the field you would like to edit and select Edit.
3. Edit your preferred details and then click Update Field.

Disable a Custom Field

When you disable a field, it is no longer editable on new or existing incidents. However, this will not erase values from existing incidents (i.e., they will still be visible on the incident details page). You should disable fields when you want to maintain existing data, but no longer want to use the field.

1. Navigate to Incidents Incident Types and select your preferred Incident Type.
2. To the right of your desired field, select Disable.
3. In the confirmation modal, click Disable.

Delete a Custom Field

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Deletion Warning

Deleting a field on an Incident Type will permanently delete the field for all Incident Types. This action cannot be undone.

1. Navigate to Incidents Incident Types and select your preferred Incident Type.
2. To the right of your desired field, select Delete.
3. In the confirmation modal, click Delete.

Field Types

You can specify the field data type when you add a Custom Field. Data types help standardize and validate field data, preventing users from entering incorrect data types into a field. The following field types are available:

• Text
• Single Select
• Multiple Select
• Tag
• URL
• Checkbox
• Datetime
• Decimal
• Integer

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Field Restrictions

• String values have a maximum of 255 characters.
• Single Select and Multiple Select field types can have a maximum of 55 options.
• Tags
  • A tag can be up to 255 characters.
  • A Custom Field can have a maximum of 55 tags.
• URL values can have a maximum of 500 characters. Only absolute URLs are allowed, and they must use one of the following schemes: http, https, tel.
• Datetime values must conform to either full-date or date-time RFC3339, section 5.6. Examples of supported values: 2022-03-14, 2019-08-28T10:43:05Z.

View Custom Fields

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Required User Permissions

Users with permission to view and edit an incident can also view and edit that incident's Custom Fields.

There are two places to view Custom Fields on incidents:

• In the web app
• In the mobile app

View Custom Fields in the Web App

To view Custom Fields in the web app, navigate to an incident's details page and scroll to the Custom Fields section.

Edit Custom Field Values

Custom Fields with default values will be prefilled, but fields may also be empty and intended for the responder to fill out during incident response.

1. Navigate to an incident's details page and click Edit Fields in the Custom Fields section.
2. In the right pane, enter your desired value(s) for each Custom Field.
3. Click Save.

When a responder updates a Custom Field's value, a log entry is added to the incident's timeline.

View Custom Fields in the Mobile App

For incidents with Custom Fields defined, you can view them in the mobile app on an incident's details screen by selecting the Triage tab and scrolling to the section Custom Fields. If there are more than three Custom Fields defined, tap Show More to expand the section and view all Custom Fields.

Sync PagerDuty Custom Fields with ServiceNow Incident Record Fields

Please read our Custom Field Mappings article for more information on bi-directionally syncing PagerDuty Custom Fields with ServiceNow Incident record fields.

Set Custom Field Values with Event Orchestration

Please see our Event Orchestration article for more information.

Update Custom Field Values with Slack

Please see our Slack User Guide for more information.

Update Custom Field Values with Microsoft Teams

Please see our Microsoft Teams User Guide for more information.

FAQ

What happens to active incidents if I add or remove a Custom Field?

How many Custom Fields can I create?

How can I analyze or run a report on Custom Fields data?