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By Sreekar
Monitoring tools track what’s happening across your systems and send a Slack message or email when something looks off. But they don’t call anyone and they don’t escalate the incident. If that Slack message goes unseen at 3 AM on a Saturday, the incident just sits there until someone opens their dashboard. Incident alerting fills this gap. When an incident triggers, it contacts the right person directly through a phone call or their preferred channel.
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By Sreekar
When a midnight incident triggers, the goal is not to wake your entire team. It’s to reach the one person who can act on it. Everyone else should sleep through it undisturbed. The difference between a team that handles midnight incidents well and one that doesn’t usually comes down to a few decisions made ahead of time. Which incidents actually need a midnight response? Who should get the call? And what should happen to everything else? This guide walks through those decisions.
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By Sreekar
Severity and priority are two labels that describe different things about an incident. Severity covers the blast radius: how much of your system or how many customers are affected. Priority covers the urgency: how quickly someone needs to act. Routing rules then use these labels to load the right escalation policy for each incident. This guide covers how to define your severity and priority levels and map them to escalation policies.
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By Sreekar
Critical incidents have a direct impact on your business revenue and the trust your customers place in you. The longer a critical incident goes unnoticed, the higher the stakes. A reliable alert routing setup automatically catches these incidents the moment they trigger and gets them to the right person without delay. This guide walks you through how to build that reliable routing setup.
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By Sreekar
Every incident arrives with a payload, and that payload usually tells you far more than whether something broke. It points to which service is affected and how serious the issue looks. It also carries context about which customers are on the receiving end of that failure. The service name, severity, customer context — all of it can feed directly into routing decisions. This guide explores how to read those parts of the payload and use them to route incidents automatically.
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By Sreekar
When an incident triggers, the question is not just what broke but also how urgent it is and who on your team needs to respond. Alert Routing rules answer those questions automatically. You define the conditions once and the right response follows every time an incident triggers. Every Alert Routing rule does one or more of these three things: Three conditions drive all of it: incident payload, time of occurrence, and frequency.
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By Sreekar
Over time, on-call teams build up a quiet layer of knowledge about their systems. Someone learns that a specific error code always means phone calls are failing. Someone else figures out that a particular background job fires a warning every night and has never once needed attention. That knowledge shapes how your team responds to incidents every day. But when it only lives in people’s heads, your response depends entirely on the right person being available at the right time.
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By Sreekar
Different incidents need different levels of attention. Some need a phone call at 3 AM and others can wait until morning. Alert Routing rules are what let you act on that understanding without doing it manually every time. An effective routing setup does three things: Getting all three of these working is what makes a routing setup useful.
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By Sreekar
When a critical incident triggers, there’s no time to figure out who to call. That decision needs to be made well before the incident arrives. A dedicated escalation policy for critical incidents gives your team a clear path to follow the moment things go wrong, rather than leaving it to whoever happens to be around. This guide covers the key decisions involved in building that policy.
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By Sreekar
Low-priority incidents are easy to deprioritise in the moment. Each one feels small and manageable. But without a proper escalation policy, they pile up quietly and reviewing them later often tells a different story. A simple escalation policy is usually all it takes to keep them from slipping through entirely.
Live Call Routing is a direct line that connects incoming calls to on-call engineers. It captures human-reported incidents that monitoring tools might miss—closing the loop between automated alerts and real-world observations so nothing falls through the cracks. It helps you respond to critical incidents faster by eliminating manual call routing, reducing response times from minutes to seconds.
Spike.sh is a modern incident response platform that brings every alert into one place—phone calls, SMS, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more. It auto-generates clear incident titles, detects severity in real time, and logs every action so your team can move from alert to resolution faster. In this video, you’ll see how to.
Discover how the Spike Raycast Extension brings critical incident management and on-call functionalities to your Mac. With this productivity shortcut, you can stay on top of incidents, check details, and take actions — all without leaving your workflow. In this video, you’ll learn how to: Designed for fast and efficient workflows, the Spike Raycast Extension ensures all the essential Spike features are right at your fingertips.
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By Spike
Today, we are bringing enhancements to on-call overrides. For many remote teams using Spike, we are addressing the need to manage overrides across multiple time zones. This new design makes it easy to see override times in the local time of the person taking over. It adds clarity and helps you be mindful about on-call times. We also focus on clearly showing who is taking over on-call duties, enhancing overall management and coordination.
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By Spike
"🚀 Automate Your Status Pages with Playbooks! 🚀 In this video, we're diving deep into the world of incident response automation. Join us as we explore how you can streamline your status page updates with Spike's powerful Playbooks feature. Learn step-by-step how to create and configure Playbooks to automate your status page notifications, ensuring your stakeholders are always kept in the loop during incidents. With a live demo and practical insights, you'll discover how easy it is to set up automated responses tailored to your organization's needs.
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By Spike
Discover how simple it is to set up automated responses, saving you valuable time during critical incidents. Say goodbye to manual updates and hello to effortless automation!
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By Spike
Playbooks are a powerful tool to automate common actions in your incident response process. It's like a pre-programmed sequence of steps your team should take when specific incidents occur. Instead of scrambling to remember protocols or manually initiating a series of tasks, responders can activate a Playbook with a single click. This triggers a predefined set of actions, such as notifying team members, setting incident severity/priority, or creating support tickets, all tailored to the nature of the incident.
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By Spike
Explore the efficient setup of a Follow-the-Sun on-call model using Spike.sh. This video provides a step-by-step guide for tech professionals to implement this global, time-zone-optimized on-call strategy seamlessly. Enhance your team's responsiveness and reduce burnout with our expert tips and insights. Perfect for IT and DevOps teams aiming for 24/7 incident management without compromising on efficiency.
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By Spike
Here is On-call 3.0, the result of your feedback, deep examination, and fundamental improvements that makes on-call a better day to day experience.
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By Spike
Welcome to Spike.sh’s Microsoft Teams bot! At the heart of every successful team lies efficient communication and swift problem resolution. That’s precisely what our bot brings to the table – a dynamic toolset that empowers you to tackle incidents seamlessly. Features: Our new Microsoft Teams bot alerts are not only prompt but also smartly updated as the situation develops. It achieves this by seamlessly integrating incident management into Microsoft Teams, providing you with real-time alerts the moment an incident surfaces.
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With unlimited alerts and integrations, Spike helps you bring clarity in incidents and decrease resolve time with complete transparency.
Gain customer confidence with every incident. We alert you of your incidents before your customers do. Stop losing customer faith in IT outage. Spike helps you bring clarity in incidents and decrease resolve time with complete transparency. Spike aims make it simple by un-complicating the platform with our enhanced features. Real-time platform health, easy escalation policies, suppressing repeat incidents, activity logs and more.
Features you will actually use:
- Group repeat incidents: Incidents which are repeated are automatically grouped together telling you how many times it has occurred along with it's first occurrence and last occurrence.
- Mute incidents: Mute an incident for a period of time, we will not send any alerts but still create an incident and group them too.
- Auto resolve incidents: Our integrations make sure that incidents are resolved automatically on Spike when they are fixed on your monitoring tool.
- Unlimited services: Come full circle by adding incident tracking to all your services. Scope your incidents, reports and health of each service.
- Affected services: Monitor the services which are affected the most by open incidents. Prioritise and resolve to increase customer satisfaction.
- Simple escalation policies: Alert one or more persons at the same time. Alert via phone preferred channel to every team member with time intervals.
- Unlimited alerts: We provide you unlimited alerts across all the supported channels. No more predicting your monthly billing cycle.
We alert you of your incidents via Phone call, SMS, Slack and Email before your customers do.