User Deactivation / Soft Delete

Hi. We have linked the PagerDuty API to our AD system via an automated provisioning pipeline. We often see issues (particularly around change of role, promotions etc) where a user loses the required AD permissions to be granted access to PagerDuty. This has the result of removing them from PagerDuty, at least until the permissions are granted again. At that point we can re-add them, but from PD’s point of view, it’s a new user, with lost preferences etc and that needs to be massaged back into shape, by re-adding to teams, schedules and so forth.

Fully acknowledging that the root cause of this issue is within AD, is there a reason that there is no “deactivated” state for a PD user account? This would greatly assist us in restoring service when there is a mistake in the upstream system

Depending on your plan, you may have access to Offboarding which does show deleted users as Inactive, which would allow you to see what objects they’re added to. For us to look more closely into your plan and provide more tailored support, please reach out to us at support@pagerduty.com!

We are also interested in the ability to deactivate/disable/inactive users to prevent the full deletion of users (and subsequent work to restore account to previous state manually) in the event of an issue upstream.

While there are settings for offboarding of users who have incidents assigned to help prevent them from being deleted, this isn’t helpful for the vast majority of users as most users don’t frequently have an active incident assigned for any extended period of time.