5 on-call workarounds your PagerDuty team has normalized (and what they actually cost)

PagerDuty, a reliable alerting tool for engineering teams, often necessitates supplementary infrastructure to manage incident coordination effectively, leading to the creation of custom workarounds such as Slack bots, spreadsheets for on-call pay tracking, and manual shift swaps. These workarounds, while solving immediate issues, incur significant costs in terms of engineering time and operational risk, as they require continuous maintenance and often lack formal documentation, making them vulnerable when the original creator leaves the team. Incident.io offers a comprehensive solution by integrating these functions natively into a Slack-based platform, eliminating the need for custom scripts and additional tools, thereby reducing the time and cost associated with maintaining these workarounds. This shift not only streamlines incident management but also addresses issues of on-call burnout and turnover by providing a more structured and reliable system for incident response, escalation, and audit logging, which are crucial for compliance and effective post-mortem analysis.