---
layout: "pagerduty"
page_title: "PagerDuty: pagerduty_escalation_policy"
sidebar_current: "docs-pagerduty-datasource-escalation-policy"
description: |-
  Provides information about a Escalation Policy.

  This data source can be helpful when an escalation policy is handled outside Terraform but still want to reference it in other resources.
---

# pagerduty\_escalation_policy

Use this data source to get information about a specific [escalation policy][1] that you can use for other PagerDuty resources.

## Example Usage

```
data "pagerduty_escalation_policy" "test" {
  name = "Engineering Escalation Policy"
}

resource "pagerduty_service" "test" {
  name                    = "My Web App"
  auto_resolve_timeout    = 14400
  acknowledgement_timeout = 600
  escalation_policy       = "${data.pagerduty_escalation_policy.test.id}"
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `name` - (Required) The name to use to find an escalation policy in the PagerDuty API.

## Attributes Reference
* `name` - The short name of the found escalation policy.

[1]: https://v2.developer.pagerduty.com/v2/page/api-reference#!/Escalation_Policies/get_escalation_policies