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Overview

Retrieves detailed information about a specific team by its ID or name.
This is a read-only tool that does not modify any data in your PagerDuty account.

Parameters

team_id
string
required
The ID or name of the team to retrieve. PagerDuty supports both team IDs (e.g., “P4B2Z3G”) and team names.

Response

Returns a detailed team object with the following fields:
id
string
The unique identifier for the team
name
string
The name of the team
summary
string
A short description of the team
description
string
The full description of the team, if set
type
string
Always “team”

Example Usage

Get team by ID

Show me details for team P4B2Z3G

Get team by name

Get information about the "Backend Services" team

Verify team exists

Does the team "Frontend" exist in PagerDuty?

Common Use Cases

  • Team verification - Confirm a team exists before performing operations
  • Getting team IDs - Look up the ID for a team when you only know the name
  • Team information - Review team details and descriptions
  • Validation - Verify team references in configurations or scripts
  • Documentation - Generate reports including team information

list_teams

List all teams

list_team_members

View team members

update_team

Modify team details (write mode)

list_services

List services for this team

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