On-call and alert escalation
Rotations, escalation policies and paging. These tools decide who is on call now and who is notified next when nobody acknowledges.
Read first: What is alert escalation?, How to design an escalation policy, On-call rotation patterns.
Lists: On-call tools in 2026 Best on-call tools in 2026 Open source on-call tools in 2026 On-call tools with a free plan in 2026 Self-hosted on-call tools in 2026
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On-call rosters, escalation policies and paging by mobile push, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and email, with uptime, heartbeat and SSL checks and hosted status pages. Priced per server rather than per user.
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Alert management and on-call service that runs incoming alerts through schedules and escalation policies and notifies people by voice, SMS, email and push, with workflow automation on higher plans.
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On-call and incident management tool with calendars, rotations, overrides, escalations, phone and SMS alerts and a mobile app; status pages come with the Pro plan.
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Observability suite that pairs uptime checks, logs and metrics with on-call schedules, escalation policies, phone and SMS alerts and hosted status pages.
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Self-hosted monitoring and alerting app that watches Graphite metrics, Jenkins jobs and HTTP endpoints and alerts the person on duty by phone, SMS or email.
README says Cabot is not actively maintained; last commit 2023-09-10. Source code
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Paging built into Datadog: on-call schedules, escalation policies and pages by phone, SMS and the Datadog mobile app, linked to Datadog monitors and incidents.
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FireHydrant's alerting and on-call product: schedules, escalation policies and alert rules that page responders and open FireHydrant incidents. Included from the Pro plan up.
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Open source on-call scheduling, escalation and paging service built at Target, with SMS and voice through Twilio, a web UI and a GraphQL API.
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Grafana Cloud's incident response and on-call service: schedules, escalation chains, alert grouping, Slack incident channels and a mobile app, next to Grafana alerting.
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Self-hosted edition of Grafana OnCall with schedules, escalation chains and alert grouping. No longer developed; Grafana Cloud IRM is the supported successor.
Maintenance mode from 2025-03-11; repository archived 2026-03-24. Hosted product continues as Grafana Cloud IRM. Source code
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Incident management platform with on-call schedules, escalation policies, voice and SMS alerts, live call routing, alert grouping and status pages.
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On-call module of incident.io: schedules, escalation paths, alert routing and a mobile app for paging, feeding straight into incident.io incidents.
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LinkedIn's open source paging engine: escalation plans that deliver messages by email, Slack, SMS and phone call. Pairs with LinkedIn Oncall for schedules.
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Atlassian's service desk product. It now holds the alerting, on-call schedule and escalation features moved over from Opsgenie, next to tickets and incidents.
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Open source on-call scheduler from LinkedIn with round-robin rotations, shift swaps and overrides, and shift reminders. Paging is handled by its sibling project Iris.
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On-call schedules with follow-the-sun rotations and substitutions, and escalation policies for alerts from Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry or any webhook. Notifies in Slack and in the web app.
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On-call alerting and scheduling service with a mobile paging app, escalations and live call routing, used by IT teams and by hospitals as a pager replacement.
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Atlassian's alerting and on-call tool with schedules, escalations and alert routing. No longer sold; customers are being moved to Jira Service Management.
New sales stopped 2025-06-04; Opsgenie shuts down 2027-04-05 and its features move to Jira Service Management.
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Long-running on-call and incident platform: schedules, escalation policies, event routing and phone, SMS and push paging, with add-ons for automation and status pages.
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Slack-based on-call tool that builds rotations and syncs them to Slack user groups, with optional paging by phone, SMS and app and escalation from L1 to L3.
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On-call scheduling and alerting service with escalation layers, integrations for common monitoring tools, and push, SMS and voice notifications.
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Rootly's paging product: schedules, escalation policies, alert routing and a mobile app, connected to Rootly incident response in Slack.
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Slack-first on-call and incident tool for small teams: schedules, alerting, incident lifecycle, postmortem drafts and hosted status pages.
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Mobile alerting app that delivers alerts to the team on duty by push, SMS and voice call, with acknowledgements, duty scheduling and many monitoring integrations.
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On-call and incident alerting for small teams, with phone, SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram alerts, Slack and Discord actions, and a status page.
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Formerly VictorOps: on-call schedules, escalation policies, alert routing rules and a shared incident timeline, now part of Splunk.
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On-call, alert routing and incident response platform with schedules, escalations and postmortems. Acquired by SolarWinds in March 2025 and sold as SolarWinds Incident Response.
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Incident and on-call management with schedules, escalation policies, a mobile app, web app and API, and status pages.
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Everbridge's on-call and alerting product: scheduling, escalations, multi-channel notifications and a low-code flow designer for automating response steps.
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On-call and incident response tool with schedules, escalations, alert rules, playbooks and postmortems. Owned by Xurrent since 2025 and being renamed Xurrent IMR.
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