PagerDuty Advance

PagerDuty Advance is a set of generative and agentic AI capabilities embedded across the PagerDuty Operations Cloud that allows organizations to scale teams and build operational resilience. From AI agents handling well-understood tasks to generative AI for summarizing key information about an incident, PagerDuty Advance augments, guides, and resolves operational work.

PagerDuty Advance includes:

• PagerDuty Advance Assistant
• PagerDuty AI Agents
• PagerDuty Advance Integration for Amazon Q
• PagerDuty Advance for Post-Incident Reviews
• PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates
• PagerDuty Advance for Automation Digest
• AI Generated Runbooks (Early Access)

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Availability

PagerDuty Advance is available as an add-on with the following pricing plans: Professional, Business, and Enterprise. Contact our Sales Team to upgrade to a plan featuring PagerDuty Advance.

PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure

To learn more about how we designed, built, and assessed PagerDuty Advance with mission-critical work in mind, access the PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure by following these instructions:

1. Navigate to PagerDuty’s Assurance Profile.
2. In the top search bar, enter PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure and select the most recent version of the document.
3. Click on the document's row to download the document.

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PagerDuty Guidelines for the Safe and Secure Use of Generative AI

Generative AI is a predictive technology, and sometimes the information it creates is misleading or false. You must fact-check the output of generative AI before you use it. Read the PagerDuty Guidelines for the Safe and Secure Use of Generative AI for more information.

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Changes to PagerDuty Advance

We continuously improve our generative AI capabilities. If there are material changes to PagerDuty Advance generative AI features, we document those in the PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure.

While PagerDuty Advance is General Access, certain features of PagerDuty Advance are currently in Early Access, as noted in the AI disclosure, and are subject to change.

PagerDuty Advance Benefits

• PagerDuty Advance Assistant: Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for critical, unplanned work with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant, a generative AI chatbot that provides responders with helpful insight from event to resolution. During an incident, you can interact with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant in Slack and Microsoft Teams using simple prompts to get a summary of the key information about the incident. It also anticipates common diagnostic questions and suggests troubleshooting steps.
  • PagerDuty Advance for Post-Incident Reviews: Create an AI-generated executive summary of the incident within Slack or Microsoft Teams. You can automatically import the summary into a new Jeli Post-Incident Review.
  • PagerDuty Advance Slack Side Panel: You can send direct messages (DMs) and interact with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant without these messages being visible to other team members. This messaging interface provides a private, one-on-one conversation channel where you can ask questions, request assistance, and collaborate on tasks directly with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant.
• PagerDuty AI Agents: AI agents guide and assist responders by taking on tedious or repetitive tasks within your connected ecosystem of tools, freeing up human capacity for high-impact work and innovation.
• PagerDuty Advance Integration for Amazon Q: The integration with Amazon Q enhances incident responses by incorporating data from your Amazon Q Business apps. This connection provides comprehensive operational information from your organization's tools, helping teams resolve incidents more quickly and effectively.
• PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates: Generative AI leverages Slack and Microsoft Teams and PagerDuty log entries to create and send internal status updates. When unplanned, interrupting work strikes, communication and coordination are essential. With push-button means of crafting a draft, responders regain the time and resources needed to reduce downtime and team stress levels. With PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates, responders easily keep stakeholders informed throughout an incident while remaining focused on resolution.

Requirements

In PagerDuty:

• You must have the Admin, Global Admin, or Account Owner base role.

In Slack:

• You must be a workspace admin or owner.

In Microsoft Teams:

• A Microsoft Teams Admin must enable third-party apps for your organization to download the PagerDuty app.
• A Microsoft Admin must authorize the Microsoft Graph API permissions required by the PagerDuty app.

How It Works

Once the PagerDuty Advance Assistant connects to the chat app:

• You can interact with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant in a channel to receive wider context, potential root causes, and on-call information.
• The PagerDuty Advance Assistant allows PagerDuty to read the history of channels directly associated with the incident or service. This information combines with PagerDuty incident log entries, allowing you to generate a Post-Incident Review draft from any resolved incident.
• You can generate status updates from an incident, which leverages the associated Slack channel and PagerDuty log entries.

Enable the PagerDuty Advance Assistant and AI Agents

1. Connect a Chat Integration

• Connect PagerDuty Advance to Slack
• Connect PagerDuty Advance to Microsoft Teams

Connect PagerDuty Advance to Slack

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Select the Assistant and AI Agents Configuration tab.
3. Under Chat Integrations, check your Slack connection status:
   • If Slack shows Not Connected: Install the Slack | PagerDuty integration.
   • If Slack shows Update required: Enable the PagerDuty Slack app’s Optional Scopes to make PagerDuty Advance’s incident summaries and updates more helpful. This includes “catch me up” and “wrap me up” summaries, status updates, and proactive incident messages. With optional scopes enabled, these features leverage data from relevant Slack conversations. Note that threaded replies are not included. Without these scopes, PagerDuty Advance functions using other data sources like incident notes and Scribe Agent transcripts.
4. Confirm that Slack shows Connected or Update required.
5. Toggle Slack to the on position.
6. Optional: Click Configure and enable proactive incident messages.
   • Proactive Incident Insights: Toggle on to automatically send incident context, symptoms, impact, and investigation suggestions to incident channels when incidents trigger.
   • Proactive Incident Summarization: Toggle on to automatically send private incident summaries to new incident channel members and Post-Incident Reviews to incident channels after resolution.

Enable the PagerDuty Advance Slack Side Panel

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Availability

This feature is only available on Slack paid plans.

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Required Scopes

The PagerDuty Advance Slack side panel requires additional scopes. A PagerDuty Admin might need to reauthorize the Slack integration to grant these scopes.

1. In your Slack workspace, navigate to Preferences Navigation.
2. Scroll down to App agents & assistants and select the PagerDuty checkbox.

Slack Admins can also enable the PagerDuty Advance Slack side panel for everyone in your Slack workspace. Read the Display AI apps in Slack article for more information.

Edit the Bot User Name

If you want to edit the bot's user name after you configure the integration:

1. Navigate to the Slack Marketplace using one of the following methods:
   • Via URL: Go to https://[your-pagerduty-subdomain].slack.com/marketplace and click Manage in the upper right. Select PagerDuty and click the App Details tab to redirect to the Slack Marketplace. Select the Configuration tab.
   • Via Slack: Select PagerDuty from the Apps section in the left menu. Click Configuration to redirect to the Slack Marketplace.
2. Scroll to the Bot User section and click Edit.
3. Enter a new bot name and click Save Changes.

Connect PagerDuty Advance to Microsoft Teams

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Select the Assistant and AI Agents Configuration tab.
3. Under Chat Integrations, if Microsoft Teams shows Not Connected:
   • Install the Microsoft Teams | PagerDuty integration.
   • In Microsoft Teams, add the Optional Permissions for PagerDuty Advance to allow communication with PagerDuty Advance.
4. Confirm that Microsoft Teams shows Connected.
5. Toggle Microsoft Teams to the on position.
6. Optional: Click Configure and enable proactive incident messages.
   • Toggle Proactive Incident Insights to the on position. When an incident triggers, automatically send a message to the incident channel with the incident’s context, symptoms, overall impact on services and customers, and suggested investigation paths.
   • Toggle Proactive Incident Summarization to the on position. When new individuals join an incident channel, automatically send them a private incident summary. After an incident resolves, send a Post-Incident Review to the incident channel.

2. Enable or Disable AI Agents

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Required User Permissions

Account Owners and Global Admins have the ability to enable or disable AI agents.

If you do not have these permissions, click Request to Admin next to the AI agent you want to use. This sends an email request to your admins to enable that agent for you.

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Select the Assistant and AI Agents Configuration tab.
3. Under AI Agents, toggle the switch of an AI Agent to the on or off position.
4. Visit the AI agents’ guides for additional setup instructions:
   • Insights Agent
   • Shift Agent
   • Scribe Agent
   • SRE Agent

3. Add Data Sources

Add a GitHub Personal Access Token

Grant access to your GitHub repositories so PagerDuty Advance automatically uses incident and chat data to identify and surface important change events that potentially caused the incident.

1. Install the Github Changes | PagerDuty integration.
2. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
3. Select the Assistant and AI Agents Configuration tab.
4. Under Data Sources, toggle Allow PagerDuty Advance to access Github Repositories to the on position.
5. Copy your Github token and paste it into the GitHub Personal Access Token field.
6. Click Save Token.

Connect PagerDuty Advance with Amazon Q

PagerDuty Advance’s integration as a data accessor for Amazon Q enables teams to use chat apps to quickly search and retrieve intelligent insights from multiple external sources connected to your organization’s Amazon Q Business apps. For instance, when investigating similar past incidents, you can quickly access relevant runbook documentation from Confluence or pull historical data from ServiceNow, streamlining the troubleshooting and resolution process.

For more information on Amazon Q data accessors, read the Amazon Q Business User Guide.

In the AWS Management Console

1. In the Services search bar, search for and select Amazon Q Business.
2. Under the Applications section, click Create application.
3. On the Create application page, configure the following information:

4. Click Create.
5. In the left menu, under the Enhancements section, select Data accessors.
6. Click Add data accessor and select the PagerDuty Advance data accessor.
7. Update the PagerDuty Advance data accessor’s name, data sources, and access permissions.
8. Click Add data accessor.
9. Leave the Data accessor configuration details prompt open to use when configuring this connection in PagerDuty.

In PagerDuty

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Select the Assistant and AI Agents Configuration tab.
3. Under Data Sources, toggle Enable Amazon Q Business to the on position.
4. On the Amazon Q Business Configuration Values modal, enter your PagerDuty Advance data accessor details from AWS:

5. Click Save configuration values.
6. To change these values, click Edit configuration values, enter the new values, and click Save configuration values.

Enable AI Summaries

Enable AI Summaries features to generate AI-powered incident summaries on the PagerDuty web app.

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Select the AI Summaries tab.
3. Toggle PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates to the on position. Use the latest incident and Slack and Microsoft Teams data to automatically generate internal Status Updates.
4. Toggle PagerDuty Advance for Automation Digest to the on position. Use Automation Actions Log data to automatically generate log digest summaries.

Note: To access these features with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant, you must enable at least one chat integration.

Manage PagerDuty Advance Account Settings

To exercise granular control over which PagerDuty Advance features are available within your account, manage these features in your PagerDuty Advance settings.

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Required User Permissions

Account Owners and Global Admins can manage PagerDuty Advance settings.

Other roles can only view these settings. For AI Agents, click Request to Admin next to the AI agent you want to use to send an email request to your admins to enable that agent.

To configure PagerDuty Advance settings, navigate to AI AI Settings and select from the tabs below:

• Assistant and AI Agents Configuration
• AI Summaries

Assistant and AI Agents Configuration

Chat Integrations

Toggle the switch of a chat integration to enable or disable the PagerDuty Advance Assistant and AI agents for your chat app.

• Slack
• Microsoft Teams

Note: When disabled, the PagerDuty Advance Assistant features including Post-Incident Reviews and Slack Side Panel are disabled for your chat app.

Click Configure on your enabled chat integration to turn proactive messages on or off:

• Proactive Incident Insights: When an incident triggers, automatically send a message to the incident channel with the incident’s context, symptoms, overall impact on services and customers, and suggested investigation paths.
• Proactive Incident Summarization: When new individuals join an incident channel, automatically send them a private incident summary. After an incident resolves, send a Post-Incident Review to the incident channel.

AI Agents

Toggle the switch of an AI agent to turn it on or off.

• Insights Agent
• Shift Agent
• Scribe Agent
• SRE Agent

Data Sources

Toggle the switch of a data source to control the information that the PagerDuty Advance Assistant can access.

• Allow PagerDuty Advance to access Github Repositories: Automatically use incident and chat data to identify recent code changes that potentially caused the incident.
• Enable Amazon Q Business: Use Amazon Q Business to retrieve information from its connectors within PagerDuty Advance.

AI Summaries

Toggle the switch of an AI Summary feature to turn it on or off.

• PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates: Use the latest incident and Slack and Microsoft Teams data to automatically generate internal status updates.
• PagerDuty Advance for Postmortems (Beta): Use the latest incident and Slack data to automatically generate postmortem reports.
• PagerDuty Advance for Automation Digest: Use Automation Actions Log data to automatically generate log digest summaries.

Disable PagerDuty Advance

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to AI AI Settings.
2. Click ... in the top right corner.
3. Select Disable PagerDuty Advance.
4. Click Disable.

Note: To re-enable PagerDuty Advance, navigate to AI AI Settings and click Enable Advance.

Warning: Disabling PagerDuty Advance here does not affect the AI Generated Runbooks (Early Access) feature. If you want to disable that feature, contact our Sales Team.

PagerDuty Advance User Guide

Read our PagerDuty Advance User Guide to learn more about using PagerDuty Advance's features after configuration.

PagerDuty Advance Trial for Legacy Pricing Plans

Accounts on some legacy pricing plans (such as Digital Operations) can trial PagerDuty Advance. As the Account Owner:

1. In the PagerDuty web app, navigate to User Icon Account Settings.
2. In the Product Trials section, click Activate PagerDuty Advance Trial.

Your PagerDuty Advance trial begins immediately. You can view your remaining AI Actions and the trial end date. Click Configure PagerDuty Advance to manage PagerDuty Advance settings.

FAQ

How do AI Actions work?

Read our Product-Specific Terms for information on AI Actions.

What’s the difference between PagerDuty Advance credits and AI Actions?

There is no difference. PagerDuty Advance credits are now called AI Actions.

How many AI Actions does each action type cost?

The current number of AI Actions that each action type consumes is as follows:

Action Type	Description	AI Actions*	Average Time Saved per Action**
Automation Digest	One request to summarize the most important results from one Automation Action job using PagerDuty Advance for Automation Digest	1	5 min
Incident Summarization	One request to summarize an incident using PagerDuty Advance Assistant (e.g., catch me up, bring me up to speed)	2	10 min
Status Update	One request to generate a status update that includes incident status and notes using PagerDuty Advance for Status Updates	3	15 min
Planned Work	One question that is non-incident related. This includes general questions about the product	2	10 min
Scribe Agent	One request that summarizes real-time audio transcripts from videoconferencing tools and generates post meeting summary	6 for the first half-hour (each additional half-hour increment adds 6 AI Actions to the total)	30 - 120 min
Shift Agent	Shift Agent is included at no additional cost and does not consume AI Actions.	0	15 min
Insights Agent	Insights Agent is included at no additional cost and does not consume Ai Actions.	0	15 min
SRE Agent	One of the following: Each request submitted to the SRE Agent via Slack or Operations Console (e.g., "What are my past incidents?), or Clicking one of the nudge buttons (e.g., Update runbook)	4	20 min

*AI Actions were previously known as PagerDuty Advance credits.
**Based on PagerDuty Advance usage and PagerDuty research.
***Incident Insight prompts such as “what is our rollback process?” uses the PagerDuty Advance integration for Amazon Q.

The number of AI Actions consumed by action type may change at PagerDuty’s sole discretion.

How do I view how many AI Actions I have used?

All users can see how many AI Actions have been used by navigating to Analytics PagerDuty Advance Analytics or AI Usage Analytics. The Account Owner also can review the remaining AI Actions for their subdomain by selecting the Your Subscription tab in Account Settings.

What Large Language Models (LLMs) does PagerDuty use?

PagerDuty Advance generates outputs with the assistance from certain LLM providers. Read the PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure to learn more about how we designed, built, and assessed PagerDuty Advance with mission-critical work in mind, including any third party models used.

Does PagerDuty Advance train models using my data?

PagerDuty does not use your data to train models used for PagerDuty Advance.

How do I get more compliance, legal, privacy or security information about PagerDuty Advance?

• You can read the PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosureto learn more about how we designed, built, and assessed PagerDuty Advance with mission-critical work in mind.
• Stay informed about the compliance status of PagerDuty Advance by reviewing our Services in Scope page.

Are there any requirements for PagerDuty Advance actions to work?

For minimum requirements, read the PagerDuty Advance AI Disclosure for details. Additionally, certain Action Types work only if certain products are provisioned in the customer’s account. For example, the Automation Digest action type requires the Automation Actions product. The following PagerDuty Advance Assistant prompts require the following products to work:

Prompt	Required Product
Where are the alerts coming from?	Incident Management
Are there any related services affected?	Incident Management
Are there any open incidents for {service name}?	Incident Management
Who do I go to for help (who is on call)?	Incident Management
What happened?	Incident Management
Catch me up on this incident	Incident Management
Generate a post incident review	Incident Management
Write me a status update message	Incident Management
How do I set up {PagerDuty feature}?	Incident Management
What are the best practices for {PagerDuty feature}?	Incident Management
Why can’t I add notes to a PagerDuty incident?	Incident Management
What questions can I ask PagerDuty Advance?	Incident Management
What data is used to generate a status report?	Incident Management
Why are my Android notifications not showing up?	Incident Management
How can I set up an integration with Jira?	Incident Management
What is the customer impact?	CSOps
What changed?	AIOps
What is the probable cause?	AIOps
Are any of the changes likely to be the cause of the incident?	AIOps
Has this incident happened before?	AIOps

What incident actions can I perform with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant?

The PagerDuty Advance Assistant now uses intelligent AI routing to connect you with specialized AI agents for different tasks. However, it no longer supports direct incident actions such as acknowledging incidents, adding responders, running workflows, or resolving incidents.

You can still perform these incident actions using the PagerDuty app commands and incident card buttons in your chat application.

How can I use the PagerDuty Advance plugin with Amazon Q?

The Amazon Q Business PagerDuty Advance plugin allows users to interact with the PagerDuty Advance Assistant. Visit the Configuring a PagerDuty Advance plugin for Amazon Q Business article for more information on configuring this plugin.

What PagerDuty Advance Assistant questions are supported In Japanese?

The PagerDuty Advance Assistant supports both the inputs and outputs in Japanese for these action types:

1. Any Incident Insight question except:

• Change Events / Probable Cause
• Who’s on call
• Service context (other services)

2. Any Incident Summarization

How do I migrate from the PagerDuty Advance Slack app to the PagerDuty Slack app?

The PagerDuty Advance Slack app is no longer available. To enable PagerDuty Advance in the Pagerduty Slack App, follow the setup guide.