Oncall
Calendar-based on-call scheduling and team management
Oncall is a calendar tool for managing on-call schedules and rotations across teams. Developed at LinkedIn, it integrates with paging systems to ensure the right engineer is reachable at any time.
Key features
- Calendar-based rotations
- Team and event management
- Paging system integration
- REST API
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Simple scheduling model
- Battle-tested at LinkedIn
Trade-offs
- Needs Iris for actual paging
- UI is utilitarian
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