On-call schedule

Overview

Who is currently available to respond to incidents and outages in your company? To answer that question, you need to check a calendar or your on-call schedule. When incidents occur, stress, panic, or both can be present, so having the on-call schedule in view can help smooth the situation.

First things first, plan your on-call schedule for the primary and backup rotations, and update the overrides whenever someone will be unreachable for any reason. Then, double-check that the communications channels (mobile devices for voice calls and SMS, email accounts, etc.) are correct and working. And that the notifications will reach to all the involved people: Responders and observers.

Read Building an effective on-call schedule to learn more about how to avoid the common mistakes of on-call scheduling, like not prioritizing work-life balance, or not leaving room for emergencies.

This gadget displays the final schedule of the on-call schedule, which takes into account the rotations and overrides defined for that schedule.

Configuration

Name your gadget meaningfully, so everyone knows at a glance what it is about and when to use it. Fill out the rest of the fields as applicable, namely:

The datasource, select an Opsgenie datasource (see Add and manage datasources).
The schedules you want to display in the gadget.
Finally, indicate if you want to use the current settings for all the compatible gadgets in the dashboard. This option eases the pain of configuring each of the remaining gadgets individually with the same default configuration.

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Dashboards

This gadget appears in the following dashboard: DevOps software team template.