LinkedIn's open source paging engine: escalation plans that deliver messages by email, Slack, SMS and phone call. Pairs with LinkedIn Oncall for schedules.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (BSD-2-Clause)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2017
- Status
- Active
- Website
- iris.claims
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
On-call and alert escalation checklist
4 of 12 confirmed in Iris's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in On-call.
- On-call schedules No
- Layered or follow-the-sun schedules No
- Overrides and swaps No
- Escalation policies Yes
- Escalation repeats Not confirmed
- Phone call alerts Yes
- SMS alerts Yes
- Mobile app Yes
- Acknowledge from chat Not confirmed
- Heartbeat checks Not confirmed
- Alert grouping Not confirmed
- Maintenance windows Not confirmed
Paging engine only: rotations come from the separate LinkedIn Oncall project via roles. Steps repeat a message N times, not the whole plan. Mobile app in linkedin/iris-mobile.
Checked against: iris.claims, iris.claims (2), iris.claims (3), github.com
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