IT Service Management integration

This article describes how you can integrate Azure Monitor with supported IT Service Management (ITSM) products.

Azure services like Log Analytics and Azure Monitor provide tools to detect, analyze, and troubleshoot problems with your Azure and non-Azure resources. But the work items related to an issue typically reside in an ITSM product or service.

Azure Monitor provides a bidirectional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help you resolve issues faster. You can create work items in your ITSM tool based on your Azure metric alerts, activity log alerts, and log search alerts.

Azure Monitor supports connections with the following ITSM tools:

• ServiceNow ITSM or IT Operations Management (ITOM)
• BMC

ITSM integration workflow

Depending on your integration, start connecting to your ITSM tool with these steps:

• For ServiceNow ITOM events or BMC Helix, use the secure webhook action:

  1. Register your app with Microsoft Entra ID.
  2. Define a service principal.
  3. Create a secure webhook action group.
  4. Configure your partner environment. Secure Export supports connections with the following ITSM tools:
     • ServiceNow ITOM
     • BMC Helix

• For ServiceNow ITSM, use the ITSM action:

  Note

  As of September 2022, we are starting the 3-year process of deprecating support for using ITSM actions to send alerts and events to ServiceNow. For information about legal terms and the privacy policy, see the Microsoft privacy statement. As of October 2023, we are not supporting UI creation of connector for using ITSM actions to send alerts and events to ServiceNow. Until full deprecation the action creation should be by API.

  1. Connect to your ITSM. For more information, see the ServiceNow connection instructions.
  2. (Optional) Set up the IP ranges. To list the ITSM IP addresses to allow ITSM connections from partner ITSM tools, list the whole public IP range of an Azure region where the Log Analytics workspace belongs. For more information, see the Microsoft Download Center. For regions EUS/WEU/WUS2/US South Central, the customer can list the ActionGroup network tag only.
  3. Configure your Azure ITSM solution and create the ITSM connection.
  4. Configure an action group to use the ITSM connector.

Next steps

ServiceNow connection instructions