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Overview

Retrieves detailed information about a specific service. Use this tool when you need to examine the complete configuration and details of a particular service.
This is a read-only tool. It retrieves data without modifying your PagerDuty account.

Parameters

service_id
string
required
The ID of the service to retrieve.Example: PSERVICE1

Response

Returns a single Service object with complete details.
id
string
The unique identifier for the service.
type
string
required
The type of the object (always "service").
name
string
The name of the service.
description
string
The description of the service.
escalation_policy
EscalationPolicyReference
required
Reference to the escalation policy associated with this service.
teams
TeamReference[]
List of teams associated with the service.

Example Usage

Show me details for service PSERVICE1

Example Response

{
  "id": "PSERVICE1",
  "type": "service",
  "name": "Production Web Service",
  "description": "Main web application service handling user requests",
  "escalation_policy": {
    "id": "PEPOLICY1",
    "type": "escalation_policy_reference",
    "summary": "Production Escalation Policy"
  },
  "teams": [
    {
      "id": "PTEAM1",
      "type": "team_reference",
      "summary": "Engineering Team"
    },
    {
      "id": "PTEAM2",
      "type": "team_reference",
      "summary": "DevOps Team"
    }
  ]
}

list_services

List all services

update_service

Update service configuration

list_incidents

List incidents for this service

get_escalation_policy

View escalation policy details

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