Integration Guide

Top 25 xMatters Integrations for Orchestrating Incident Management

Incident response is no longer managed inside one tool. Modern operations teams rely on observability platforms, ITSM systems, collaboration tools, cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, security platforms, and automation workflows to detect, diagnose, communicate, and resolve issues.

The challenge is not simply having more tools. It is making those tools work together when every minute matters.

xMatters helps connect operational signals with coordinated action. By integrating xMatters with the systems teams already use, organizations can route incidents to the right people, automate escalations, trigger remediation workflows, launch collaboration spaces, synchronize updates, and keep stakeholders informed throughout the incident lifecycle.

This guide highlights 25 valuable xMatters integrations for building a more connected, automated, and resilient incident response ecosystem.

What are the most valuable xMatters integrations for incident management?

The most valuable xMatters integrations are the systems that help teams move from detection to coordinated action. These commonly include observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk; ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow and Jira Service Management; collaboration tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Chat, and Google Meet; cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; DevOps tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and HashiCorp; security platforms such as CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks; and AI platforms such as OpenAI and Google Gemini.

The right integration mix depends on your operating model, service ownership structure, incident volume, automation maturity, and business-critical systems.

Why Integrations Matter in Modern Incident Response

Most organizations do not suffer from a lack of alerts. They suffer from fragmented response.

A monitoring tool may detect a problem. A ticket may be created in an ITSM system. Engineers may coordinate in Slack or Microsoft Teams. A bridge may be opened in Zoom or Google Meet. Cloud teams may check infrastructure events. Security teams may review detections. Leaders may need business impact updates. Meanwhile, the clock keeps running.

Without orchestration, incident response becomes a chain of manual handoffs.

xMatters helps reduce that friction by connecting detection, engagement, escalation, collaboration, automation, and communication into a coordinated workflow. That gives teams a clearer path from signal to action.

A strong integration strategy can help organizations:

  • Route incidents to the right responders faster
  • Reduce alert fatigue and operational noise
  • Automate repetitive response tasks
  • Coordinate technical and business stakeholders
  • Improve major incident response consistency
  • Synchronize updates across systems of record
  • Support SRE, DevOps, SecOps, NOC, and service desk workflows
  • Improve operational resilience across distributed environments

Integration Categories at a Glance

Category Common tools Primary value
Observability and monitoring Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk Turn alerts and telemetry into coordinated response workflows
ITSM and service management ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, BMC, Freshservice Connect incident records with real-time engagement and escalation
Collaboration and ChatOps Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Chat, Google Meet Coordinate responders inside the collaboration tools they already use
Cloud and infrastructure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes Operationalize cloud and infrastructure events across teams
CI/CD and DevOps GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, HashiCorp Connect deployment, pipeline, and infrastructure events with response workflows
Security operations CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks Coordinate cross-functional security response and escalation
AI and automation OpenAI, Google Gemini Enrich incidents, summarize context, and support faster operational decision-making

Observability and Monitoring Integrations

Datadog

Datadog provides visibility across infrastructure, applications, logs, services, and cloud environments. xMatters helps teams act on those signals by turning Datadog alerts into coordinated response workflows.

When Datadog detects an anomaly, service degradation, latency spike, infrastructure issue, or deployment-related incident, xMatters can help route the incident to the right responders, launch escalation workflows, trigger automation, create collaboration channels, and synchronize updates with ITSM and operational systems.

This integration is especially useful in large-scale cloud-native environments where alert volume can overwhelm responders. Rather than forwarding every alert directly to engineers, xMatters adds routing, prioritization, context, and orchestration around the response process.

Best for: Cloud operations, SRE teams, DevOps teams, platform engineering, high-volume alert environments.

Common use cases:

  • Intelligent alert routing
  • SRE escalation workflows
  • Cloud infrastructure incident response
  • Kubernetes-related incident coordination
  • Automated remediation workflows

FAQ

New Relic

New Relic helps teams monitor applications, infrastructure, digital services, and customer experiences. xMatters extends that visibility into operational action.

When New Relic identifies performance degradation, service disruption, infrastructure failure, or customer-impacting behavior, xMatters can engage the right teams, escalate unresolved issues, launch collaboration workflows, trigger remediation actions, and coordinate stakeholder communications.

This integration is valuable for organizations focused on digital experience reliability, where response delays can directly affect customers, revenue, and trust.

Best for: Application performance teams, SRE, digital service operations, customer-facing services.

Common use cases:

  • Application incident response
  • Digital experience monitoring workflows
  • Automated escalation
  • Major incident coordination
  • Service performance response workflows

FAQ

Grafana

Grafana is widely used by cloud-native teams managing Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and distributed infrastructure. xMatters helps operationalize Grafana alerts into response workflows that match the speed of modern environments.

When Grafana detects service degradation, infrastructure anomalies, capacity issues, or application disruptions, xMatters can notify responders, escalate incidents, launch collaboration workflows, and trigger automated remediation.

This is especially useful where infrastructure changes quickly, alert volume is high, and reliability targets are tightly measured.

Best for: SRE, platform engineering, Kubernetes teams, cloud-native operations.

Common use cases:

  • Kubernetes incident response
  • Prometheus alert orchestration
  • Infrastructure escalation workflows
  • Cloud-native operational coordination
  • Automated remediation

FAQ

Dynatrace

Dynatrace brings AI-driven observability, dependency mapping, and root cause analysis to complex enterprise environments. xMatters helps operationalize those insights by coordinating what happens next.

When Dynatrace identifies anomalies, service degradation, infrastructure failures, or performance issues, xMatters can notify the appropriate responders, launch escalation workflows, trigger remediation, coordinate collaboration, and synchronize incident workflows with ITSM systems.

Together, Dynatrace and xMatters help teams move from detection and analysis to coordinated action.

Best for: Enterprise IT operations, AIOps initiatives, complex service environments, hybrid infrastructure.

Common use cases:

  • Root cause-informed routing
  • Enterprise incident coordination
  • AI-driven incident escalation
  • Service impact management
  • Infrastructure remediation workflows

FAQ

Splunk

Splunk helps organizations collect, analyze, and act on large volumes of operational and security data. xMatters helps ensure those insights lead to coordinated action.

When Splunk identifies operational anomalies, security threats, infrastructure events, or service disruptions, xMatters can engage responders, trigger escalation workflows, launch collaboration channels, synchronize with ITSM systems, and automate containment or remediation tasks.

This integration is especially useful across ITOps, SecOps, NOC, and SOC environments where speed and coordination directly affect business risk.

Best for: IT operations, security operations, NOC, SOC, enterprise operations.

Common use cases:

  • SIEM-driven incident response
  • SOC escalation workflows
  • Security orchestration
  • Infrastructure incident management
  • Cross-functional war room coordination

FAQ

ITSM and Service Management Integrations

ServiceNow

ServiceNow often serves as the operational backbone for ITSM, workflow governance, and enterprise service management. xMatters extends ServiceNow incidents into real-time engagement, escalation, collaboration, and automation.

When incidents are created or updated in ServiceNow, xMatters can engage the right responders based on schedules, escalation policies, services, or business context. It can also enrich incidents, launch collaboration workflows, trigger remediation, coordinate stakeholder updates, and keep incident records synchronized.

The integration is especially powerful in enterprise environments where incidents affect multiple teams, systems, and business services.

Best for: Enterprise IT, service desk, major incident management, NOC, SRE, hybrid operations.

Common use cases:

  • Bi-directional incident synchronization
  • Automated responder engagement
  • Major incident management
  • Service ownership-based routing
  • AI-assisted triage and response workflows
  • Cross-platform workflow orchestration

FAQ

Jira Service Management

Jira Service Management helps IT and engineering teams manage incidents, service workflows, and change processes. xMatters extends those workflows into real-time operational coordination.

When incidents are created or updated in Jira Service Management, xMatters can route incidents based on service ownership, severity, schedules, or escalation policies; launch collaboration workflows; trigger remediation actions; synchronize updates; and escalate unresolved incidents.

This integration is particularly useful for DevOps, SRE, and Atlassian-centric organizations that want to improve incident response without disrupting familiar Jira workflows.

Best for: Engineering-led operations, DevOps, SRE, Atlassian environments, organizations transitioning from Opsgenie.

Common use cases:

  • Incident escalation automation
  • Major incident management
  • DevOps operational coordination
  • SRE response workflows
  • Change management orchestration

FAQ

BMC

Many large enterprises rely on BMC platforms for IT operations, service management, infrastructure workflows, and enterprise process coordination. xMatters helps modernize response workflows in BMC-centric environments by adding real-time engagement, escalation, automation, and collaboration.

When incidents occur, xMatters can engage the right responders, trigger escalation workflows, launch collaboration channels or bridges, synchronize incident updates, coordinate communications, and trigger remediation workflows.

This integration is valuable for organizations that want to extend existing ITSM investments rather than replace them.

Best for: Large enterprises, legacy and hybrid environments, IT operations modernization, service desk operations.

Common use cases:

  • Enterprise escalation management
  • Major incident coordination
  • IT operations modernization
  • Infrastructure incident response
  • Hybrid cloud operational coordination

FAQ

Freshservice

Freshservice gives IT teams a modern service management platform for incidents, service requests, assets, and workflows. xMatters helps connect those service management processes with faster operational execution.

When incidents are created in Freshservice, xMatters can engage responders, trigger escalations, launch collaboration workflows, synchronize updates, and keep stakeholders informed throughout the incident lifecycle.

This is useful for teams that want to mature beyond manual ticket routing without adding unnecessary complexity.

Best for: IT service desks, mid-market IT operations, service management teams, major incident coordination.

Common use cases:

  • Automated incident escalation
  • On-call engagement and routing
  • Major incident coordination
  • Service desk workflow automation
  • Cross-team operational response

FAQ

Collaboration and ChatOps Integrations

Slack

Slack is often where incident response happens in real time. Engineers collaborate, incident commanders coordinate, leaders ask for updates, and operational decisions are made under pressure.

xMatters helps turn Slack from a messaging layer into a connected incident response workspace. During incidents, xMatters can create dedicated channels, invite responders, trigger escalations, launch bridges, synchronize updates with ITSM platforms, route approvals, and execute workflow actions.

Responders can also acknowledge notifications, escalate issues, join collaboration sessions, and take action directly from Slack.

Best for: Engineering teams, DevOps, SRE, ChatOps, Slack-centric organizations.

Common use cases:

  • Responding to notifications from Slack
  • Automated incident channel creation
  • ChatOps-driven incident response
  • Slash command workflows
  • Major incident coordination
  • Stakeholder communications

FAQ

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a primary collaboration workspace for many enterprises. xMatters helps connect Teams collaboration with incident engagement, escalation, automation, and stakeholder communications.

When incidents occur, xMatters can create dedicated Teams channels, invite responders and stakeholders, launch collaboration sessions, deliver operational context, trigger escalation workflows, synchronize with ITSM systems, and coordinate updates across technical and business teams.

This integration is especially useful for Microsoft-centric organizations and large enterprises where incident response extends beyond engineering to include service desk, operations, security, communications, and leadership teams.

Best for: Microsoft-centric enterprises, hybrid workforces, IT operations, cross-functional incident response.

Common use cases:

  • Responding to notifications from Teams
  • Automated Teams incident channel creation
  • Enterprise ChatOps workflows
  • Major incident coordination
  • Executive communications during outages
  • Operational approvals and escalations

FAQ

Zoom

During major incidents, communication delays can quickly become response delays. xMatters helps automate Zoom coordination so teams do not waste time manually creating bridges, distributing links, or assembling responders.

When an incident is triggered, xMatters can launch Zoom bridges, share meeting details, invite responders and stakeholders, synchronize information across operational systems, and escalate teams that have not joined response efforts.

Best for: Major incident management, distributed teams, executive incident briefings, high-severity response workflows.

Common use cases:

  • Automated bridge creation
  • Major incident coordination
  • Executive incident briefings
  • Cross-functional operational response
  • Global collaboration workflows

FAQ

Google Chat and Google Meet

For organizations using Google Workspace, Google Chat and Google Meet can become important incident collaboration surfaces. xMatters helps operationalize those tools as part of a connected response workflow.

When incidents occur, xMatters can create Google Chat spaces, launch Google Meet bridges, invite responders, trigger escalations, synchronize operational updates, and coordinate stakeholder communications.

This integration supports distributed teams that want incident collaboration to happen inside the tools they already use every day.

Best for: Google Workspace organizations, distributed engineering teams, cloud-native operations, SRE.

Common use cases:

  • Automated Google Meet bridge creation
  • Incident collaboration spaces in Google Chat
  • ChatOps-driven incident coordination
  • Stakeholder communication workflows
  • Cross-functional operational response

FAQ

Cloud and Infrastructure Integrations

Amazon Web Services

AWS environments are dynamic. Services span regions, accounts, containers, serverless workloads, databases, APIs, and infrastructure layers. xMatters helps operationalize AWS events into coordinated response workflows.

When AWS incidents occur, xMatters can route incidents, engage cloud operations or SRE teams, trigger remediation workflows, coordinate collaboration channels, synchronize with ITSM platforms, and automate stakeholder communications.

Best for: Cloud operations, SRE, platform engineering, AWS-centric enterprises, large-scale cloud environments.

Common use cases:

  • CloudWatch alert orchestration
  • Lambda automation workflows
  • Kubernetes incident response
  • Multi-cloud coordination
  • Cloud infrastructure escalation

FAQ

Microsoft Azure

Azure environments often span cloud services, hybrid infrastructure, identity systems, enterprise applications, and Microsoft collaboration workflows. xMatters helps connect Azure operational signals with coordinated response execution.

When Azure Monitor or other services detect issues, xMatters can engage responders, trigger escalations, launch collaboration channels, coordinate cross-team response, automate remediation, synchronize with ITSM systems, and keep stakeholders informed.

Best for: Microsoft-centric enterprises, hybrid cloud teams, infrastructure operations, service desk and ITSM-connected workflows.

Common use cases:

  • Azure Monitor incident workflows
  • Hybrid cloud operational coordination
  • Infrastructure remediation
  • Enterprise escalation management
  • Service outage coordination

FAQ

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud environments often include Kubernetes infrastructure, APIs, containerized applications, distributed services, and high-volume telemetry. xMatters helps turn those operational signals into response workflows.

When issues arise in Google Cloud environments, xMatters can notify responders, trigger escalations, launch collaboration channels, coordinate remediation, synchronize updates, and automate stakeholder communications.

Best for: Google Cloud teams, SRE, platform engineering, cloud-native operations, distributed services.

Common use cases:

  • Kubernetes operational workflows
  • Cloud-native incident response
  • SRE coordination
  • Infrastructure remediation
  • Multi-cloud operations

FAQ

Kubernetes

Kubernetes improves deployment speed and scalability, but it also increases operational complexity. Containers appear and disappear, services scale dynamically, and failures can cascade quickly across distributed systems.

xMatters helps operationalize Kubernetes incident response by routing events to service owners, engaging SRE and platform teams, launching collaboration workflows, triggering remediation automations, escalating unresolved issues, and coordinating communications during service disruptions.

Best for: SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud-native operations, high-scale container environments.

Common use cases:

  • Kubernetes incident response
  • SRE escalation workflows
  • Cluster health management
  • Pod failure remediation
  • Platform engineering coordination

FAQ

CI/CD and DevOps Integrations

GitHub

Modern incidents are often tied to software delivery. Deployments, configuration changes, workflow failures, and release issues can all create operational disruption.

xMatters connects GitHub events with incident response workflows so teams can notify engineering groups, trigger escalation, coordinate rollback processes, launch collaboration channels, synchronize operational updates, and automate response actions tied to CI/CD workflows.

Best for: DevOps, engineering teams, SRE, release management, GitHub-centric organizations.

Common use cases:

  • Deployment failure response
  • Rollback coordination
  • CI/CD incident response
  • Engineering escalation workflows
  • Release management coordination

FAQ

GitLab

GitLab brings source control, CI/CD, security, and DevOps workflows together. xMatters extends those workflows into operational response.

When pipeline failures, deployment issues, security events, or operational disruptions occur, xMatters can automate incident escalation, engineering engagement, approval workflows, remediation orchestration, deployment coordination, and stakeholder communications.

Best for: GitLab-centric DevOps teams, DevSecOps, SRE, release management, platform engineering.

Common use cases:

  • Pipeline failure escalation
  • Deployment incident management
  • CI/CD operational coordination
  • Release workflow automation
  • Engineering collaboration

FAQ

Jenkins

Jenkins remains deeply embedded in many enterprise CI/CD and automation environments. xMatters helps connect Jenkins events with incident response and operational coordination.

When Jenkins detects build failures, deployment risks, configuration issues, or release problems, xMatters can notify engineering teams, trigger escalations, coordinate rollback actions, launch collaboration channels, synchronize updates, and trigger remediation automations.

Best for: Enterprise DevOps, CI/CD operations, release engineering, organizations with established Jenkins workflows.

Common use cases:

  • Build failure escalation
  • Deployment rollback coordination
  • CI/CD incident response
  • Engineering notifications
  • Operational automation

FAQ

HashiCorp

Infrastructure automation is central to modern operations. As teams adopt infrastructure as code, secrets management, dynamic provisioning, and cloud automation, infrastructure events become part of the incident response lifecycle.

xMatters helps operationalize HashiCorp environments by connecting infrastructure events with engagement, escalation, collaboration, approvals, remediation, and automation workflows.

Best for: Platform engineering, cloud operations, infrastructure automation, DevOps, SRE.

Common use cases:

  • Terraform operational coordination
  • Vault security workflows
  • Infrastructure remediation
  • Cloud infrastructure escalation
  • Platform engineering operations

FAQ

Security Operations Integrations

CrowdStrike

Security incidents move quickly, and response coordination can be difficult when security, IT, infrastructure, legal, communications, and leadership teams all need to act together.

xMatters helps operationalize CrowdStrike detections into coordinated response workflows. When CrowdStrike identifies suspicious activity, endpoint threats, ransomware behavior, credential compromise, or high-severity security events, xMatters can engage responders, trigger escalations, launch collaboration channels, synchronize with ITSM and security systems, automate containment actions, and coordinate stakeholder communications.

Best for: SOC, SecOps, cyber resilience, endpoint security response, cross-functional security incidents.

Common use cases:

  • SOC escalation workflows
  • Threat response coordination
  • Ransomware response orchestration
  • Endpoint security incident management
  • Executive cyber communications

FAQ

Palo Alto Networks

Security teams often have strong detection capabilities but still struggle with coordination during active incidents. xMatters helps operationalize Palo Alto Networks security events into response execution.

When threats, firewall events, anomalies, or high-priority detections occur, xMatters can engage security responders, trigger escalation workflows, coordinate across IT and security teams, launch collaboration bridges, synchronize workflows with operational systems, and trigger containment or remediation actions.

Best for: SecOps, networking teams, SOC, infrastructure security, cyber resilience programs.

Common use cases:

  • SOC escalation workflows
  • Threat containment coordination
  • Firewall incident response
  • Security operations automation
  • Cross-functional cyber response

FAQ

AI and Automation Integrations

OpenAI

AI is becoming part of incident response because operational environments are too fast, complex, and noisy for purely manual coordination to scale.

xMatters can help organizations integrate AI capabilities into response workflows while keeping humans in control of critical decisions. With AI technologies such as OpenAI, teams can accelerate incident summarization, context gathering, knowledge retrieval, stakeholder communication drafting, workflow recommendations, decision support, and timeline generation.

xMatters then helps connect those AI-supported actions with observability, ITSM, ChatOps, cloud, security, and automation workflows.

Best for: AI-assisted operations, major incident management, knowledge-heavy response workflows, high-volume operations teams.

Common use cases:

  • AI-generated incident summaries
  • Knowledge retrieval workflows
  • Stakeholder communication drafting
  • Operational context enrichment
  • Workflow recommendations

FAQ

Google Gemini

Google Gemini can support AI-assisted incident response by helping teams process context, generate summaries, retrieve knowledge, draft communications, and recommend workflows.

xMatters helps operationalize those AI-driven insights across the response lifecycle. Rather than treating AI as a separate tool, teams can embed AI assistance into the workflows responders already use for incident response, collaboration, automation, and stakeholder communication.

Best for: Google-centric organizations, AI-assisted operations, SRE, DevOps, enterprise incident response.

Common use cases:

  • AI-generated incident summaries
  • Operational context enrichment
  • Knowledge retrieval workflows
  • Stakeholder communication drafting
  • AI-assisted triage and prioritization

FAQ

How to Prioritize xMatters Integrations

Not every integration delivers the same value. The best place to start is usually where your incident response process creates the most friction today.

Use these questions to prioritize your integration roadmap:

  1. Where do incidents originate most often?

    Start with the observability, monitoring, cloud, security, or service management systems that generate your most important incidents.

  2. Where do responders already work?

    Integrate collaboration tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Chat, or Google Meet so responders can coordinate without context switching.

  3. Where does the system of record live?

    Connect ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, BMC, or Freshservice so incident records, updates, and actions stay synchronized.

  4. Which manual tasks slow response?

    Look for repeatable tasks that can be automated, including escalation, bridge creation, stakeholder updates, remediation workflows, and approval routing.

  5. Which incidents carry the highest business risk?

    Prioritize integrations that support critical services, customer-facing systems, regulated workflows, security events, and major incident response.

  6. Where can AI reduce operational friction?

    Consider AI-assisted summarization, knowledge retrieval, timeline generation, and communication drafting where responders are overloaded with information.

Build a Connected Incident Response Ecosystem

The most resilient operations teams do not rely on disconnected tools and manual handoffs. They build connected response ecosystems where detection, triage, escalation, collaboration, automation, and communication work together.

xMatters helps teams connect those systems into a coordinated operational response layer. The result is less manual effort, fewer delays, better stakeholder alignment, and faster movement from signal to resolution.

Whether your team is modernizing ITSM workflows, scaling SRE practices, building a ChatOps model, improving SecOps coordination, or adopting AI-assisted operations, the right integrations can help make incident response faster, more consistent, and more resilient.

Download the Integration Planning Checklist

Not all integrations deliver equal value. Some reduce noise. Some eliminate manual work. Others change how teams detect, decide, communicate, and act during critical incidents.

Use the xMatters Integration Planning Checklist to:

  • Identify operational gaps
  • Prioritize high-value integrations
  • Align workflows across teams
  • Reduce manual response steps
  • Improve incident response maturity
  • Accelerate automation initiatives
  • Build a more resilient operational ecosystem