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Almost excited to get paged

Six weeks into my internship, I was handed the biggest project I'd ever worked on: WhatsApp notifications for on-call paging. It was bigger by a large margin. When we scoped it out it broke into about a dozen chunks, each roughly the size of a whole project I'd done before. This is what I learned from it, and what it was like leading a project of that size as one of the most junior engineers at the company.

ilert now supports a native Bleemeo integration

Bleemeo monitoring now connects natively to ilert, linking threshold detection to on-call management and alerting. DevOps, SRE, and IT operations teams get a direct path from a breached threshold to the phone of the engineer who can fix it, and back to a clean slate once the problem is gone.

On-Call Alerting vs. Mass Notification: What's the Difference?

When an urgent situation occurs, organizations need more than a way to send a message. They need a communication strategy that considers who needs to receive the message, whether they need to take action and how quickly they need to respond. This is where the difference between on-call alerting and mass notification becomes important. A critical IT incident, for example, may require an immediate response from a specific on-call engineer or incident response team.

Top 10 Incident Management Tools Compared

An IT incident costs the most in the minutes between the first alert and the first owner. Incident management tools exist to shrink that window. However, choosing the best incident management tools is not as straightforward as we’d like it to be. The 2026 market has its own complications, Opsgenie is going away on April 5, 2027, and Squadcast has been folded into SolarWinds.

How to Configure Redundancy Channels in the OnPage Console

Learn how to configure redundancy notifications and copy recipients for a contact in the OnPage Console. This video walks through disabling Secure Messaging, setting the redundancy time interval, selecting additional delivery channels and sending message copies through email, SMS or IVR/voice call. Important: Disabling Secure Messaging means messages will no longer be delivered through OnPage’s secure channel. This configuration is not HIPAA compliant and should not be used for healthcare communications requiring HIPAA compliance.

Automate Incident Management with PagerDuty Slack

Most organizations managing major incidents realized that every moment matters. Context-switching between different tools – with multiple web and chat surfaces having to be open to collect information causes friction. The cost of context-switching during an outage is even more painful. These are the problems that PagerDuty’s Slack Transformation just closed.

SSL Certificate Expiry Alerts in Slack

Certificate expiry is the most predictable outage in all of infrastructure. The date is printed inside the certificate. You can read it ninety days ahead. Nothing about it is a surprise, and yet SSL certificate expiry alerts remain one of the most common gaps in otherwise mature monitoring setups, and expired certificates keep taking down production systems at companies with serious engineering teams.

Google Calendar On-Call Rotation Template

Most teams building an on-call rotation template in Google Calendar get the first two steps right and the third one wrong. Creating a shared calendar is easy. Inviting the team is easy. Expressing "four people, one week each, forever, handing off Monday morning" as a set of recurring events is where it falls apart, usually into a mess of one off entries that someone has to rebuild by hand every quarter.