TICKET MANAGEMENT

Page On-Call via PagerDuty When a P1 Zendesk Ticket Breaches SLA

Listens for Zendesk SLA breach events on high-priority tickets and immediately opens a PagerDuty incident routed to the on-call engineer, with a Slack heads-up to the support lead.

CategoryTicket Management
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps4
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerZendesk SLA breach webhookZendeskZendesk
  • LogicKeep only urgent/high unsolved tickets
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident for on-callPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputNotify support lead in SlackSlack

What it does

Turns a breached high-severity Zendesk SLA into a real page. The moment an urgent or high-priority ticket misses its SLA target, it creates a PagerDuty incident so the on-call rotation is woken up instead of the miss sitting unnoticed in a queue.

When to use it

Use this for customer-facing P1/P2 tickets where a missed SLA is an operational emergency, not just a metric. Best when your engineering or support escalation path already runs through PagerDuty.

How it works

  1. 1A Zendesk webhook fires on the SLA breach event for a ticket.
  2. 2A logic step checks priority is urgent or high and the ticket is still unsolved, dropping everything else.
  3. 3The flow opens a PagerDuty incident with the ticket subject, requester, and breach reason, routed to the right escalation policy.
  4. 4A parallel Slack message notifies the support lead channel that a page has gone out, linking both the ticket and the incident.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect ZendeskTickets, queues, knowledge base.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  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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