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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.

Incident Management System: What It Is and How to Choose One

An alert fires. A ticket opens. Someone gets paged. Then the real work begins: gathering context, finding the affected service, deciding who owns the issue, running diagnostics, applying a fix, validating recovery, and documenting the result. Many IT teams assume that an incident management system is simply the application that opens and tracks the ticket. That is part of the job, but it’s not the whole operating model.

How to Send Critical Alerts to the OnPage App | 3 Ways

What are the different ways to send a critical alert to the OnPage app? This video shows three ways people and external systems can trigger a high-priority OnPage mobile alert that's also HIPAA compliant (secure or healthcare use cases): These options are particularly useful for users with OnPage mobile licenses who do not have a Silver or Gold plan.

The 5 Stages of AI-Human Collaboration to Improve Operational Reliability

AI adoption is now a measurable driver of both uptime and growth. According to PagerDuty’s 2026 State of AI-First Digital Operations report, 75% of organizations actively incorporating AI into digital operations claim to have improved operational resilience and maturity over the past year. The same report suggests AI in operations is also a revenue driver.

Is your most expensive talent spending valuable time writing status updates?

A major incident can turn a highly skilled engineer into a coordinator, a search engine, and a status writer. The work looks necessary in the moment. The cumulative effect is easy to miss: the people most needed to understand the failure spend their time repeating what others already know.

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.