PagerDuty

The PagerDuty integration allows you to create PagerDuty incidents for any Action Item in Fairwinds Insights. This includes all three contexts: Insights Agent, CI/CD and Admission Controller.

PagerDuty incidents are created via Automation Rules. You can customize your Automation Rule to only trigger on particular events (e.g. critical level container CVEs from Trivy). You can also customize the PagerDuty incident with different levels of urgency, add resource metadata and remediation details to the incident body and more.

How It Works

Users can create new PagerDuty incidents for specific scenarios using Fairwinds Insights’ Automation Rule functionality. Automation Rules trigger automatically when certain scenarios are met. For example, a common user scenario is creating a PagerDuty incident when a new high severity security misconfiguration is found in the Kubernetes cluster.

At a minimum, a PagerDuty incident requires:

• An incident title
• A PagerDuty service ID
• An urgency threshold (low or high)

Users can optionally configure an incident description which are good places to store remediation recommendations and workload related details. Incidents may also be routed to an escalation policy or assigned to specific PagerDuty user IDs.

Once a PagerDuty incident is created, it will appear in the PagerDuty console under the specific service ID specified.

Installation

The user who authorizes the application will appear in the PagerDuty UI as having triggered the incident. We suggest creating a "robot account" for authenticating with Fairwinds Insights to prevent any confusion

1. Visit your organization's Settings > Integration page
2. Hover over PagerDuty and click Add Integration
3. Once you have connected PagerDuty to Insights, you can use Automation Rules to trigger incidents