Question
How do I automatically alert my team about tickets nearing an SLA breach?
Answer
Begin by creating and applying SLA policies to tickets in your account. For general instructions for creating SLAs, see the article: Defining and using SLA policies.
To automatically alert a team about an SLA that is about to breach, create an automation to notify the team by email.
To create the automation
- Create a new automation.
- Under Meets all of the following conditions, select:
- Ticket: hours until next SLA breach | Less than | 2
- If you have business hours set in your account, choose (business) Less than as opposed to (calendar) Less than.
- You may also want to specify a custom ticket field, like an About field value, to narrow down when this automation will fire.
- The Ticket: Status category | Less than | Solved condition makes sure the automation saves successfully. You can also use conditions for Type, Group, Assignee, or Requester to satisfy this requirement.
Note: In accounts without custom ticket statuses enabled, use the condition Ticket: Status instead of Ticket: Status Category.
- The Ticket: Tags condition and action are used to ensure the automation doesn't fire more than once. Learn more about these concepts in this article: About automations and how they work.
- Ticket: hours until next SLA breach | Less than | 2
- Under Perform these actions, notify an individual user, a group of users, or even an external target or integration.