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PagerDuty

ANOW! Observe integrates natively with PagerDuty, forwarding enriched alerts and incident events for critical workload automation issues. This ensures on-call engineers are notified and escalated via the same incident-response platform they already use, providing structured incident lifecycle management.

PagerDuty

About the Integration

The ANOW! Observe PagerDuty integration connects through its built-in Alertmanager component, forwarding alerts and incident events to PagerDuty. This integration sends structured incident events containing vital information such as severity, a summary of the issue, the affected job or workflow, runtime context, and a deep link back to ANOW! Observe. This robust connection ensures critical workload automation incidents, like job failures or SLA breaches from ANOW! Automate or BMC Control-M, trigger immediate, disciplined responses.

This integration connects using the standard Alertmanager PagerDuty receiver, which utilizes the PagerDuty Events API and a service-specific integration key. This approach aligns seamlessly with your existing PagerDuty service models, ensuring configuration consistency. ANOW! Observe deduplicates, groups, and prioritizes alerts before they reach PagerDuty, preventing alert fatigue and ensuring on-call rotations are paged only for genuine incidents. It supports routing notifications to different PagerDuty services or escalation policies based on criteria like team, severity, or business service.

This integration is designed for enterprise IT operations teams, SREs, and platform engineers managing complex hybrid IT landscapes. It is particularly valuable for organizations that rely on PagerDuty for their incident response and on-call management, needing to extend this discipline to their critical workload automation and mainframe operations.

Integration Benefits

Unified Incident Response

Extend PagerDuty's proven incident management capabilities to critical workload automation events. ANOW! Observe forwards enriched alerts, ensuring all operational incidents, from infrastructure to job failures, follow consistent on-call schedules and escalation policies, unifying your hybrid IT landscape.

Reduced Alert Fatigue

ANOW! Observe intelligently deduplicates, groups, and prioritizes alerts before they reach PagerDuty. This noise reduction ensures on-call engineers are paged only for genuine, actionable incidents, protecting team well-being and maintaining response quality for sustainable on-call rotations.

Enhanced Escalation Discipline

Combine ANOW! Observe's SLA model and severity scoring with PagerDuty's escalation policies. High-impact production incidents page immediately, while lower-priority alerts can follow less intrusive paths, ensuring appropriate response levels and mitigating business risk effectively.

Auditable Incident Lifecycle

Every triggered, acknowledged, and resolved PagerDuty event from ANOW! Observe is linked to its corresponding workflow run. This provides a complete, auditable incident lifecycle, critical for compliance reporting, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement efforts.

Use Cases

Workflows Supported by This Integration

INCIDENT RESPONSE

Paging Critical Job Failures

Automatically page on-call teams via PagerDuty for critical job failures or SLA breaches in ANOW! Automate or Control-M.

COMPLIANCE

Auditing Automation Incidents

Maintain an auditable record of all workload automation incidents from detection to resolution

OPERATIONS

Dynamic Alert Routing

Route workload automation alerts to specific PagerDuty services based on severity, team, or business impact.

SRE

Proactive On-Call Sustainability

Prevent on-call burnout by reducing alert noise and ensuring only actionable incidents trigger pages.

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