Overview

Service allows you to specify the impacted component during an incident. This can help you with identifying which responders to bring in, which on-call to page, which customers to inform, etc. Individual services can be mapped to your status pages. Clean Shot2025 08 21at12 04 37@2x Pn

Adding Services in Rootly

To add a new Service via the Rootly Web UI, navigate to Configuration > Services then click New Service. Assign your new Service with a description Title and Description to help the rest of your team know what the Service represents.

Editing Services

Services are made up of a number of properties. Each property can be referenced via Liquid syntax and can be set in the Rootly Web UI, API, or imported from Opsgenie and PagerDuty. This section outlines how to edit the Services in the Rootly Web UI. Clean Shot2025 08 21at12 06 58@2x Pn

Basics

Configure the basic details of your Service here.

On-Call

Configure what happens when this Service is paged in Rootly On-Call. When this Service is paged either manually by a user, or through an Alert Source, the Escalation Policy selected here will fire.

Channels

Configure the Channels section to reference the Service’s related Slack properties. These Slack properties (like Slack Channel and User Group) can be used in Rootly’s Workflows to build powerful Slack automations off of the Service.
You can also set up default broadcast channels for when the service is either paged, or added to an incident on this page. Toggle Set up a default Alerts Channel On when you want Rootly to automatically post an update to Slack when the service is paged. Toggle Set up a default Incidents Channel when you want to post once the service has been added to an incident. Clean Shot2025 08 21at12 23 40@2x Pn

Services in Fields

Service can be customized to be either a select or multi-select field type. This means you can configure it to allow only one service value to be selected per incident or allow multiple service values to be selected for a single incident.
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Since the service field can be either a select or multi-select field type, the Liquid syntax to reference each field type will differ.Select will follow a single-value syntax{{incident.raw_services | get: '<attribute>'}}Multi-select will follow an array syntax. Where i references the specific service object in the list of services.{{incident.raw_services\[i\] | get: '<attribute>'}}

Import Services

Instead of creating services from scratch, Rootly allows you to import services from PagerDuty or Opsgenie. Imported services will be automatically kept in sync on a daily basis.
The ability to import teams will only become available once you have PagerDuty or Opsgenie installed on the integrations page .
The following Liquid syntax will allow you to list out the corresponding ids from each of the external paging applications: PagerDuty {{ incident.raw_services | get: 'pagerduty_id' }} for select field type {{ incident.raw_services\[0\] | get: 'pagerduty_id' }}for multi-select field type Opsgenie {{ incident.raw_services | get: 'opsgenie_id' }} for select field type {{ incident.raw_services\[0\] | get: 'opsgenie_id' }}for multi-select field type

Support

If you need help or more information about this integration, please contact support@rootly.com or start a chat by navigating to Help > Chat with Us.