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January 25, 2022

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Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

๐Ÿ“ฎ Invite Responders to Incidents via Slack

Incidents are best tackled collaboratively and looping in the right responders fast is critical.

We've found today not only is it a manually intensive task but knowing who should be included is frustrating.

We are introducing a new Workflow Task to automatically add teammates into the incident Slack channel.

  • Supports both Slack users and Slack user groups (e.g. @oncall-infra, @legal)
  • Dynamically add people based on conditions set in Workflows (e.g. If postgres-db impacted then add Mary)
  • Users do not have to be signed up on Rootly in order to be added

๐ŸŒ New & Improved

  • ๐Ÿ†• New slash command for assigning roles via /incident assign or /rootly assign, eliminating the need to scroll up
  • ๐Ÿ†• Roles are exposed via the Rootly API
  • ๐Ÿ’… We simplified our syntax in URLs on Web
  • ๐Ÿ’… Made adding summary via /incident summary more obvious inside of incident channels
  • ๐Ÿ’… Continued to invest heavily in our own reliability and on-call structure, customers can page us if urgent
  • ๐Ÿ› Fixed typo in Slack integration
  • ๐Ÿ› Fixed issue where users weren't able to unassign from on-call roles
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๐Ÿ”€ Integrate with Linear Triage

โฒ๏ธ Acknowledge, Snooze, and Escalate Alerts

๐Ÿ”’ Severity based incident permissions

๐Ÿค– AI Meeting Bot for Incident Bridges

๐Ÿ”„ Reordering Escalation Paths

๐Ÿ“ Alert Notes

๐Ÿšจ New Alert Sources: Checkly and New Relic

๐Ÿ”Š Configurable Alert Volume

๐Ÿ”” Notify Slack Channel of Shift Changes

๐Ÿ“ฆ Customizable Alert Description

๐Ÿคณ View Shifts, Create Overrides, and Escalate Alerts from Rootly Mobile

๐Ÿ˜… Alert Urgency

๐Ÿšจ New Alert Sources: Azure, CloudWatch, and Google Cloud

โ˜Ž๏ธ Live Call Routing

๐Ÿค‘ On-Call Pay Calculator

๐Ÿ’“ Heartbeats: Continuous System Monitoring

๐Ÿšจ Alert Grouping

๐Ÿค“ Smart Defaults for Google Meet & Zoom

๐Ÿงผ Redesigned Incident Announcement & Update Slack Blocks

๐Ÿ’… New Navigation Bar and Configuration UI

๐Ÿฅธ Sync On-Call Schedules with Slack User Groups

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ /rootly lookup: Find and Filter Recent Incidents in Slack

๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™€๏ธ On-Call Shadowing

๐Ÿ”Œ Generic Webhook Alert Source

๐Ÿ”’ Lock Individual Workflows