On-call rotations for DevOps & SRE teams
Keep your infrastructure covered around the clock. Rotate incident commanders in Slack, automate shift handoffs, and ensure every alert has an owner.
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The problem
Without a proper on-call rotation system, devops & sre teams face these challenges daily:
The solution
Shifter solves these problems with automated on-call rotations in Slack:
Use @incident-commander in Slack
Your monitoring system detects a spike in error rates. The team mentions @incident-commander in Slack and the current SRE on duty is immediately notified.
Create your rotation
Set up @incident-commander with your SRE team, choose a rotation cadence that matches your on-call policy, and publish it.
Shifter rotates automatically
Shifts hand off automatically at the exact time you set, including overnight and weekend coverage, with no manual intervention.
Handle exceptions easily
Need to swap a weekend shift or cover a teammate's PTO? Create an override and Shifter resumes the normal schedule automatically afterward.
DevOps & SRE Teams FAQs
Can Shifter enforce fair on-call distribution to avoid burnout?
Rotation order is sequential and visible to the whole team, so everyone can see shifts are distributed evenly — no one silently ends up on-call more often than others.
What happens during a shift handoff?
Shifter notifies the incoming on-call engineer and, if you enable it, the channels that need to know a new shifter is live.
Ready to set up on-call rotations for your devops & sre team?
Join 200+ teams already using Shifter to manage their on-call schedules directly in Slack.
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