Opsgenie data residency

Opsgenie gives customers control over where store their data. After Opsgenie’s acquisition by the Atlassian family, users can still choose the location for their data residency when creating an account, subject to some limitations. Learn more about European Service Region

What’s changed?

We’ve integrated Opsgenie with the Atlassian systems to increase cross-product collaboration and benefit from being under a common platform. Previously, all your product and personal data were stored in the location you’ve selected while creating your account for the first time.

After integrating to Atlassian systems, we’re storing some product and personal data in US locations, whether you’ve selected a different location to store your data while creating your account. All Opsgenie product data not listed below (such as schedules, alert data, incident data, etc.) will continue to be stored in your selected location.

Personal Data

Irrespective of the location you chose for your data while creating your Opsgenie account for the first time, we’ll store the personal data stated below in the US location, as part of the Atlassian centralized profile migration:

• Full name

• Public name

• Job title

• Department

• Email address

To learn more about setting profile and visibility on an Atlassian Account profile, go to Update your profile and visibility settings.

Product Data

If you’ve selected the US as your data residency location while creating your Opsgenie account for the first time, we’ll keep all your product data in the US. If you've selected any other location, we'll store the product data below in both US and the location you selected:

• Team name

• Team description

• Team members

• Service name

• Service description

• Service tags

• Service relations

• Bitbucket mapping

Request a data residency move in Opsgenie

Opsgenie supports data residency moves for Jira Service Management customers, which means they can select a location to host their accounts. The move includes a subset of processed and stored data related to those accounts. We recommend keeping your data for both Opsgenie and Jira Service Management in the same location.

Before you request a data residency move, it is important to understand how the move will affect your Opsgenie account.

Opsgenie will be offline

While we’re moving your data to a new location, your Opsgenie account will be offline and your users won’t be able to access the product data, API endpoints, or integrations. If you're using Opsgenie in your Jira Service Management environment, Jira Service Management features powered by Opsgenie will also experience downtime. The process can take up to 24 hours, depending on the size and type of your data. During this window, we’ll email you when the move starts, when it’s finished, and Opsgenie is back online and ready for use.

Opsgenie domains

Data residency moves impact your accounts located in EU that use https://app.eu.opsgenie.com in the site URL. After the move, the URLs will change to the following:

• app.opsgenie.com

• api.opsgenie.com

• opsgenie.net

• opsg.in

Your existing domains will continue to work, but the URLs for any new endpoints will not include the 'eu' prefix.

Amazon action channels

If you’re using any of the following Amazon action channels in Opsgenie and you’re moving your data residency, be sure to update the region of the action channels manually for them to continue to work as expected.

• Outgoing Amazon SNS

• Amazon Security Hub

• Amazon SNS Channels

• Amazon Systems Manager

For details, see Configure Amazon action channels after data residency moves

How to prepare for a move

To reduce the impact of Opsgenie temporarily going offline, plan your data migration for a quiet time such as a weekend or public holiday. Also create a mitigation plan for the downtime as necessary. Since Jira Service Management features powered by Opsgenie will be offline during the move, communicate to your Jira Service Management users well in advance the timelines of the migration so they can be prepared for the activity.

Steps to request a data residency move

To request a data residency move:

1. Prepare for your data residency move as recommended.

2. In Opsgenie, go to Settings.

3. Select App settings > Data residency. The page also tells you where your data is currently hosted.

4. Select Request data residency move.
   If you're moving your data from the EU to the US location, your Opsgenie site URL will change to exclude the “.eu” endpoint. For example, the URL will change from app.eu.opsgenie.com to app.opsgenie.com

5. Click Next.

6. Select a location to move your data to.
   We recommend keeping your data for both Opsgenie and Jira Service Management in the same location.

7. Click Next.

8. Select Confirm and move data.

In the following circumstances however, you may not be able to request a data residency move:

• The Opsgenie data residency move feature is undergoing maintenance. Follow Opsgenie’s status page for updates and come back later.

• Atlassian has reached the maximum number of requests for data residency move for the day. You will have to try again later.

• Your site name is already in use by another Opsgenie site. For instance, if your account is located in EU with eu. endpoints and you have users with the same site name at other locations without the eu. endpoints, or if your account is located in US but you have users in EU with eu. endpoints, a data residency move isn’t possible. In such cases, contact Atlassian Support for help with moving your data residency.