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January 10, 2025

On-Call

⏲️ Acknowledge, Snooze, and Escalate Alerts

⏲️ Acknowledge, Snooze, and Escalate Alerts

Strengthen your incident response by helping your responders stay on top of open alerts with Rootly’s latest Alert Timeout, Snooze, and Escalate features.

Once a responder has acknowledged an alert, Rootly will snooze the alert while the responder investigates. After a period of time, Rootly will re-page the same responder, reminding them that the alert is still open and needs to be investigated.

Why it matters

How do you make sure a responder hasn’t fallen back asleep? In the middle of the night or during a busy day, alerts may be forgotten about and remain open when an urgent incident should’ve be spun up. By re-paging your responders:

  • You’ll have confidence that your team’s alerts are being evaluated and triaged by paging responders
  • Minimize stale alerts that should’ve resulted in an escalation, or an incident
When an alert is acknowledged by a responder, Rootly will re-page the responder based on the snooze timeout period.

With Rootly, never leave a critical alert open and without investigation again!

To get started, visit your Alerts page in your Rootly admin. Turn the ‘Retrigger acknowledged alert’ toggle on to begin re-paging responders after an alert is acknowledged.

🌝 New & Improved

🆕 Added the ability to schedule Google Calendar events to specific calendars.

🆕 Added API and Terraform support for enabling services and teams to allow email-triggered alerts.

💅 Added the ability to filter Rootly members list by Incident Response Role and On-Call Role.

💅 Page Rootly On-Call workflow action has been updated to allow quick simpler confirmation to page All Attached Services/Teams, Newly Attached Services/Teams, and First Attached Services/Teams.

🐛 Fixed display issue where 3rd party ad-ons (e.g. 1Password, Grammarly, etc.) partially blocking field inputs. 

🐛 Fixed incorrect display of error message on resource edit pages.

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⏲️ Acknowledge, Snooze, and Escalate Alerts

🔒 Severity based incident permissions

🤖 AI Meeting Bot for Incident Bridges

🔄 Reordering Escalation Paths

📝 Alert Notes

🚨 New Alert Sources: Checkly and New Relic

🔊 Configurable Alert Volume

🔔 Notify Slack Channel of Shift Changes

📦 Customizable Alert Description

🤳 View Shifts, Create Overrides, and Escalate Alerts from Rootly Mobile

😅 Alert Urgency

🚨 New Alert Sources: Azure, CloudWatch, and Google Cloud

☎️ Live Call Routing

🤑 On-Call Pay Calculator

💓 Heartbeats: Continuous System Monitoring

🚨 Alert Grouping

🤓 Smart Defaults for Google Meet & Zoom

🧼 Redesigned Incident Announcement & Update Slack Blocks

💅 New Navigation Bar and Configuration UI

🥸 Sync On-Call Schedules with Slack User Groups

🕵️‍♀️ /rootly lookup: Find and Filter Recent Incidents in Slack

👯‍♀️ On-Call Shadowing

🔌 Generic Webhook Alert Source

🔒 Lock Individual Workflows

🐦‍⬛ Round Robin Escalation Policies