--- layout: "pagerduty" page_title: "PagerDuty: pagerduty_service" sidebar_current: "docs-pagerduty-resource-service" description: |- Creates and manages a service in PagerDuty. --- # pagerduty\_service A [service](https://v2.developer.pagerduty.com/v2/page/api-reference#!/Services/get_services) represents something you monitor (like a web service, email service, or database service). It is a container for related incidents that associates them with escalation policies. ## Example Usage ``` resource "pagerduty_user" "example" { name = "Earline Greenholt" email = "125.greenholt.earline@graham.name" teams = ["${pagerduty_team.example.id}"] } resource "pagerduty_escalation_policy" "foo" { name = "Engineering Escalation Policy" num_loops = 2 escalation_rule { escalation_delay_in_minutes = 10 target { type = "user" id = "${pagerduty_user.example.id}" } } } resource "pagerduty_service" "example" { name = "My Web App" auto_resolve_timeout = 14400 acknowledgement_timeout = 600 escalation_policy = "${pagerduty_escalation_policy.example.id}" } ``` ## Argument Reference The following arguments are supported: * `name` - (Required) The name of the service. * `description` - (Optional) A human-friendly description of the escalation policy. If not set, a placeholder of "Managed by Terraform" will be set. * `auto_resolve_timeout` - (Optional) Time in seconds that an incident is automatically resolved if left open for that long. Value is "null" is the feature is disabled. * `acknowledgement_timeout` - (Optional) Time in seconds that an incident changes to the Triggered State after being Acknowledged. Value is "null" is the feature is disabled. * `escalation_policy` - (Required) The escalation policy used by this service. ## Attributes Reference The following attributes are exported: * `id` - The ID of the service. ## Import Services can be imported using the `id`, e.g. ``` $ terraform import pagerduty_service.main PLBP09X ```