PagerDuty
The Blameless platform offers a bi-directional PagerDuty integration that allows for the following:
- Determine the current on-call for a given service
- Determine an escalation policy for a given service
- Trigger a PagerDuty alert for a given service (manually via a command or auto-trigger upon creation of a Blameless incident)
- Trigger creation of a Blameless incident when an incident is created in PagerDuty
note
Integrate with either PagerDuty or Opsgenie. Do not attempt to activate both at the same time.
Getting Started
Activating the PagerDuty/Blameless integration is a three step process:
- Providing Credentials.
- Configuration for Incident Types.
- Webhook Configuration.
Providing Credentials
- Get a valid API key from PagerDuty.
- Set the PagerDuty credentials (API Key) in Blameless via the Settings page
- From Settings, expand Integrations > Alerting
- Select PagerDuty.
- Enter the PagerDuty API Key.
- Toggle the "Enable Pagerduty" slider to enable the integration.
- Click on Save.

Configuration for Incident Types
PagerDuty Auto-Trigger Incidents
Blameless, upon initiating an incident, can automatically trigger an alert in certain Pagerduty services.

- Select an Incident type
- Scroll down and locate the Pagerduty auto-trigger incidents settings.
- Toggle the "Pagerduty auto-trigger incidents" switch to enable auto-triggering.
- Select the Pagerduty Service from the dropdown. Blameless can automatically assign the listed on-call resource as the Incident commander on activation of an Incident.
- Click Save.
Webhook Configuration
Customers should contact Blameless support to get their unique URL for the PagerDuty webhook.
You will need to append the following two values to the end of the Blameless-provided URL for your PagerDuty / Blameless Integration:
- Incident Type
- Severity
The incident type value is case sensitive so verify your type matches your incident type label in the Blameless incident type field.
The severity field will ignore the SEV
portion of SEV 0
and pick up the numeric value 0
only.
For Example:
A severity 1 incident associated with the DEFAULT
incident type within Blameless will look like this:
https://example.blameless.io/webhook/v1/123abc?incident_type=DEFAULT&incident_severity=1
note
Do not forget the appending ?
between the URL and Incident / Severity elements when appending the string.
In the following Image, note that the DEFAULT Incident type is all caps—as is the example above.

Once you have confirmed the URL from Blameless, refer to the following link for further instructions: https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/webhooks
Testing the Integration
You need to confirm two things:
- The general Integration between Blameless and PagerDuty
- The PagerDuty Webhook integration
Testing the General Integration
If you can see the PagerDuty services listed in incident type/severity Settings then the integration is successful.

Testing the Webhook Confirmation
Trigger an alert within PagerDuty, which should then create a Blameless Incident. If a Blameless incident is created from a PagerDuty alert then you’ll know the integration is successful.