Configure PagerDuty for Alerting
Use the Grafana Alerting - PagerDuty integration to receive notifications in PagerDuty when your alerts are firing.
Before you begin
To set up PagerDuty for integration with Grafana Alerting, you need to create a PagerDuty account. There are several set up steps to perform within PagerDuty before you set up the integration in Grafana Alerting.
Create a Service
In PagerDuty, a service represents a component, microservice, or infrastructure element that a team oversees, manages, and monitors.
- Follow steps 1 to 5 under Create a Service. 
Note
In step 5, choose Create a service without an integration.
Obtain a PagerDuty integration key
- Once the service is created, click Integrations within the Service options.
- Click + Add an integration.
- Select Events API V2.
- Click Add.
- Click the drop-down arrow to display the integration details.
- Copy the Integration Key.
Procedure
To create your PagerDuty integration in Grafana Alerting, complete the following steps.
- Navigate to Alerts & IRM -> Alerting -> Contact points. 
- Click + Add contact point. 
- Enter a contact point name. 
- From the Integration list, select PagerDuty. 
- In the Integration Key field, copy in your integration key. 
- Click Test to check that your integration works. - ** For Grafana Alertmanager only.** - An incident should display in the Service’s Activity tab in PagerDuty. 
- Click Save contact point. 
Next steps
The PagerDuty contact point is ready to receive alert notifications.
To add this contact point to your alert, complete the following steps.
- In Grafana, navigate to Alerting > Alert rules.
- Edit or create a new alert rule.
- Scroll down to the Configure labels and notifications section.
- Under Notifications click Select contact point.
- From the drop-down menu, select the previously created contact point.
- Click Save rule and exit.







