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January 25, 2022

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Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

📮 Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

Incidents are best tackled collaboratively and looping in the right responders fast is critical.

We've found today not only is it a manually intensive task but knowing who should be included is frustrating.

We are introducing a new Workflow Task to automatically add teammates into the incident Slack channel.

  • Supports both Slack users and Slack user groups (e.g. @oncall-infra, @legal)
  • Dynamically add people based on conditions set in Workflows (e.g. If postgres-db impacted then add Mary)
  • Users do not have to be signed up on Rootly in order to be added

🌝 New & Improved

  • 🆕 New slash command for assigning roles via /incident assign or /rootly assign, eliminating the need to scroll up
  • 🆕 Roles are exposed via the Rootly API
  • 💅 We simplified our syntax in URLs on Web
  • 💅 Made adding summary via /incident summary more obvious inside of incident channels
  • 💅 Continued to invest heavily in our own reliability and on-call structure, customers can page us if urgent
  • 🐛 Fixed typo in Slack integration
  • 🐛 Fixed issue where users weren't able to unassign from on-call roles
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🔒 Lock Individual Workflows

🐦‍⬛ Round Robin Escalation Policies

🚨 Alert Sources

🔔 Configurable On-Call Shift Reminders

📄 Dynamic Forms

🔐 Granular Role-Based Access Control Settings for On-Call

✉️ Emails as an On-Call Alert Source

🗓️ View Multiple On-Call Schedules Together

🤝 Partial Shift Overrides in Rootly On-Call

🏗️ Terraform + API Support for Rootly On-Call

🦉 Rootly x Thena Integration

🎬 New Full Platform Tour on Rootly.com

🔦 Drop-down Search in Escalation Policy Builder

🦊 GitLab Integration

Update Custom Incident Fields Using Workflows

🤖 Ask Rootly AI (+ More New AI Features!)

Rootly AI Editor: Fix Typos, Grammatical Errors, and Wordy Text Instantly

📊 Dashboard Sharing Permissions

✍️ Customize Your Wordbank for Automatic Incident Title Generation

🧠 Smart Defaults for Jira

🔌 The Rootly Plugin for Zendesk

🪄 Rootly Retrospectives

⚡ Command Palette: Lightning Fast Navigation with a Single Keyboard Command

Rootly Terraformer: Seamlessly Bring Workflows From Rootly’s UI to Terraform

Smart Defaults for Slack Configuration