Manage your incidents

Learn about what defines an incident and how the ITSM incidents category can be used.

Learn what defines a major incident and what they’re used for.

Learn what it means to escalate an incident, how to do it, and what happens when you do.

Learn how SLAs work in incidents and how to set them up.

Track the progress of major incidents with the incident timeline

Use chat channels and conference calls to communicate about incidents with your team.

Learn how to swarm on incidents using incident conference calls.

Learn how to start a new or join an existing ICC session.

Learn how to set permissions for the Incident Command Center and make sure your agents have access to swarm on incidents

Learn how to add Slack as an incident chat channel to your project or site as an admin.

Create chat channels from the issue view of an incident to talk with your team about the incident.

Add the responders field to your incidents so that you can use responder features to help resolve incidents faster.

Alerts can be automatically created when someone is assigned, added as a responder or owns a service on an incident

Learn about alert priorities and how they work with issue priorities to manage your alerts

Linking alerts to an incident allows you to track the status of monitoring alerts from the issue view of the incident.

Add or modify your contact methods to receive alert notifications when an incident occurs

Learn how to add and manage internal stakeholders during incidents.

Find out why and when Opsgenie stakeholder roles are created during the incident management process.

Update your incident and access new features like Alerts, Responders, Linked alerts, and Major incidents

Learn how to add the major incidents field and how to mark an incident major.

Learn how to investigate changes with the incident investigation view.