A significant part of being on-call is the ability to respond to pages and handle escalations on the go. In the early stages of developing incident.io On-call, we considered whether a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) could rely solely on SMS and phone calls. However, we quickly realized that a fully featured mobile app was going to be essential to the on-call experience. This led us to the question: how should we build this mobile app?

We’re excited and honored (and might even be blushing a little) to share our Summer 2024 accolades from G2, including being ranked #1 in G2’s Relationship Index! There are several factors that go into determining this ranking, including: While all of these awards are special to us, Best Relationship means a lot because, well, our customers mean a lot.

In Slack, creating a page or incident is simple. To rapidly create an issue, hover over a message in Slack or use the /page command. ‍

You can use Pagerly to establish reminders if you would like to be informed when there will be a rotation change or oncall handover.When a schedule change is about to occur, Pagerly will automatically recognise it and send out a notification to the team's Pagerly channel.

Get each team's current oncall automatically and tag them into any Slack topic. To bring up the current oncall in any channel, topic, or conversation, use @Pagerly. You may also use this to automate responses. ‍

Recognizing the difference between major and critical incidents is essential for IT operations, as downtime can result in significant financial losses for businesses. Gartner highlights that effective incident management can cut downtime by as much as 40% . Major incidents disrupt business operations but are typically confined to specific systems or processes.

March 5th was a big day for incident.io as we released our on-call product to the world. Nine months of listening to our customers, coding, fixing, testing, and polishing came together for our biggest product launch to date. Releasing On-call was a huge milestone and represented the next step in our journey as a company.