Rootly On-Call

Pricing and hosting

Pricing

Paid

Open source

No

Self-hosted

No

Launched

2024

Status

Active

Website

rootly.com

Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.

What it does

On-call and alert escalation checklist

10 of 12 confirmed in Rootly On-Call's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in On-call.

• + On-call schedules Yes
• + Layered or follow-the-sun schedules Yes
• + Overrides and swaps Yes
• + Escalation policies Yes
• + Escalation repeats Yes
• + Phone call alerts Yes
• + SMS alerts Yes
• + Mobile app Yes
• ? Acknowledge from chat Not confirmed
• + Heartbeat checks Yes
• + Alert grouping Yes
• ? Maintenance windows Not confirmed

No documented acknowledge-from-Slack for pages or maintenance-window suppression (only deferral paths and disabling routes).

Checked against: docs.rootly.com, docs.rootly.com (2), docs.rootly.com (3), docs.rootly.com (4), docs.rootly.com (5), rootly.com

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