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Outages that enter your normal workflow.

Open a Jira ticket with a summary you choose when a monitor goes down. Useful when an outage needs follow-up work rather than just a notification, and when that work belongs in the same tracker as everything else.

  • A ticket, not just an alert. The outage becomes a work item someone can pick up, prioritise and close in the tool your team already plans in.
  • Your own summary. Write the ticket summary in the notify step, with placeholders so it carries the specifics of the incident.
  • Encrypted at rest. The credentials you enter are encrypted at rest.
01 · When to reach for it

Outages that need follow-up.

Not every outage needs a ticket. The ones that do are usually the ones where the fix is not finished when the service comes back.

Recurring problems

A service that goes down repeatedly needs work, not just alerts. A ticket puts that work somewhere it will be prioritised.

Outages needing a post-mortem

When an incident warrants a review, a ticket is where that review gets scheduled and tracked.

Handover to another team

If the fix belongs to a team that does not watch your alerting channels, a ticket reaches them through the process they already use.

Compliance and audit

Where outages need a documented trail, a ticket per incident creates one in the system your organisation already audits.

Put it behind a Wait

A ticket for a two-minute blip is noise in your backlog. Delay it so only real outages create work items.

Not for every monitor

Because flows belong to individual monitors, reserve ticket creation for the services where follow-up is genuinely expected.

Questions

Common questions

How do I connect Jira to Hesklo?
Add a Jira connection in the monitor editor sidebar with the credentials Hesklo asks for and the project tickets should be created in. Use Send test to confirm a ticket appears in the right place.
Can I control what the ticket says?
Yes. The Jira notify step lets you write the summary, and you can include placeholders such as flow, state, detail and duration so the ticket carries the specifics of the incident.
Do Jira tickets close automatically when the service recovers?
Ticket creation is what the Jira step does. If you want an all-clear when a service recovers, draw a notify step from the monitor up port. PagerDuty is the destination where the incident lifecycle is managed automatically on both ends.
Should every outage create a ticket?
Usually not. Most teams reserve ticket creation for outages that need follow-up work and use a chat channel for everything else. Putting the Jira step behind a Wait block also stops brief blips filling your backlog.
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Turn real outages into tracked work.

Connect a project, write your summary, and let genuine incidents open themselves.