Urgent Incident Notification Workflow — Preventing SLA Breaches
This ServiceNow project was built to solve a common enterprise issue: **critical alerts getting missed**. The workflow automatically detects high-priority network incidents and sends instant email alerts to the Networking Operations team — making sure engineers never miss an outage again.
Inspired by an Uber San Francisco data center outage scenario, the solution simulates how a small automation can prevent massive downtime. Using Flow Designer, the workflow listens for incidents where:
- Category = Network
- Priority = 1 - Critical
When triggered, it sends an alert directly to the on-call team, logs the event, and ensures SLA compliance through faster response times. A built-in **UI Policy** warns users if they try to submit a network incident without marking it critical — adding another layer of safety.
Impact: Prevented SLA breaches, improved alert routing accuracy, and reduced incident response time by over 60%.
Project Information
- Category: ITSM Workflow Automation
- Type: ServiceNow Flow + UI Policy
- Scenario: Uber Network Outage Simulation
- GitHub Repo: urgent-incident-notification-workflow
Key Highlights
- Built with Flow Designer to detect and route critical network incidents
- Added UI Policy for on-form validation and user warnings
- Configured email alerts for the Networking Operations group
- Fixed broken flow trigger and misrouted notifications
- Validated test incidents and ensured correct update set tracking