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Earlier this year at our H1 2026 launch, we announced PagerDuty’s vision for autonomous operations: a future where AI agents learn from every incident, prevent failures before they happen, and progressively automate so teams can focus on innovation instead of firefighting.

Where do your teams go during a critical incident? For distributed teams, that war room is a channel in Slack or Microsoft Teams. The question is: are you creating a dedicated space for each incident, or are responders scrambling across DMs, email threads, and general channels trying to piece together what happened? The answer matters. Using dedicated incident channels has become the industry standard for high-performing incident response teams.

We’ll be rolling out new Slack capabilities to eliminate more manual toil from your incident workflow: click once to promote any alert to an incident, get dedicated channels created automatically, page responders without leaving Slack, and manage all your settings in one place. This is part of our path to autonomous operations: reducing toil, protecting your capacity, and letting you stay in flow. If you’re only using PagerDuty for on-call scheduling, you’re missing the full picture.