Switching to a Slack-native incident management platform, particularly incident.io, offers a streamlined solution to reduce the time and cognitive load associated with managing incidents across disparate tools. The guide outlines a 4-week migration plan that consolidates the incident lifecycle into Slack, eliminating the need for engineers to toggle between different applications like PagerDuty, Jira, and Datadog. By using slash commands and channel interactions within Slack, the platform provides a seamless experience, allowing teams to declare, manage, and resolve incidents without leaving the interface they already use. This approach not only reduces the mean time to resolution (MTTR) by minimizing coordination overhead but also enhances operational efficiency with features like AI-driven incident response tasks and automated post-mortem generation. The transition is designed to be swift and effective, with evidence from small engineering teams showing a complete integration in less than 20 days. While the platform excels in reducing cognitive load and offering robust customer support, it relies heavily on Slack's availability and does not specialize in microservice SLO tracking.