TICKET MANAGEMENT

Merge Two Incidents from Slack and Reconcile Their Tickets

An incident commander runs a Slack command naming two PagerDuty incidents; the workflow merges them in PagerDuty and re-links every Zendesk ticket from the absorbed incident onto…

CategoryTicket Management
EngineSim + Paperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerchat
Steps5
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSlack command with survivor and absorbed incident IDsSlack
  • LogicValidate both incidents exist and are open
  • ActionMerge absorbed incident into survivor in PagerDutyPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • ActionRe-link absorbed incident's Zendesk tickets to survivorZendeskZendesk
  • OutputPost merge summary with moved ticket counts to SlackSlack

What it does

Sometimes only a human knows that two separate incidents are really the same outage. This workflow lets an incident commander trigger a merge from Slack by naming the surviving and the absorbed PagerDuty incidents. It performs the PagerDuty merge, then walks every Zendesk ticket previously linked to the absorbed incident and re-links it to the survivor, so no customer report is orphaned. A confirmation summary is posted back to the channel.

When to use it

Use when automated dedup missed a pair, or when two on-call engineers opened parallel incidents for one root cause. Best for teams that coordinate incidents in Slack and want a one-command cleanup that keeps PagerDuty and Zendesk in sync.

How it works

  1. 1A Slack command with the survivor and absorbed incident IDs triggers the flow.
  2. 2The agent validates both incidents exist and are open.
  3. 3PagerDuty merges the absorbed incident into the survivor.
  4. 4Zendesk tickets linked to the absorbed incident are found and re-linked to the survivor.
  5. 5A merge summary with moved ticket counts is posted back to Slack.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect ZendeskTickets, queues, knowledge base.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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