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Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by motakuk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:10PM (#29165135)
Hey everyone, Matvey, ex-CEO of Amixr is here. Me and Ildar Iskhakov started this project three years ago because we used to be on-call ourselves and needed better tools. It was an amazing journey from 0 to 1. Tons of coding, first customers, fundraising, iterating, and finally the honor to join Grafana Labs and build Grafana OnCall! I'll be happy to answer your questions if you have any.
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by joaoqalves on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:58PM (#29165869)
It's great to see more competition in this space. Generally speaking, what I miss in these "incident management" products is also an integrated, flawless way to handle incidents when they're happening. I'm talking about:

1. Quickly creating a proper chat 2. Quickly creating an incident document where you can pin chat messages and use it in the post-mortem. Ideally, pinning some graphs that you'd extract from your observability solutions 3. Having a status page to put a small description for non-technical stakeholders.

PagerDuty covers some of this. Monzo's Response [1] and now incident.io [2] try to cover it too. I'd like to have this experience end-to-end.

1 - https://github.com/monzo/response 2 - https://incident.io/

Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by hrpnk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:14PM (#29166066)
Monzo's solution does not seem to be actively maintained, is it?

+100 on the creation of incident chat rooms and pinning data to re-use in incident docs. There is nothing worse than copying the timeline events from one tool to a Google Doc.

Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by joaoqalves on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:16PM (#29166100)
AFAIK, the creators created incident.io as a spin-off [1] :) Smart move, I must say.

1 - https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/incidentio-raises...

Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by VectorLock on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @08:18PM (#29169980)
This is one thing I really like about PagerDuty's incident response, I can pull incidents and Slack messages right into the Incident timeline. I usually end up copy and pasting it into a.. _sigh_ Jira ticket.
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by igetspam on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:56PM (#29166645)
I use incident.io. Pretty happy with it. Very responsive team.
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by SeriousM on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:28PM (#29165396)
Hi! Thanks for sharing this news. Will this be available for on-premise installations, and when?
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by motakuk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:42PM (#29165597)
For now, we are focusing on rolling Grafana OnCall in the Grafana Cloud. It's a very common use case to have such a system outside of your infrastructure so it won't be affected by probable issues. It should be alive even when everything goes wrong.

We've already received multiple questions about OSS and on-premises. Will roll cloud version first, see how it works, collect feedback and build (and share) future plans!

Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by bilalq on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:31PM (#29165442)
This looks really neat. We don't use Grafana today. We're running CloudWatch/insights and Squadcast for alerting, but deep integration with the monitoring tool looks cool. Is this usable with self-hosted or AWS managed Grafana?
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by motakuk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:35PM (#29165506)
Yep! The idea of Grafana OnCall is to help you to group, deduplicate, route & deliver to Slack/SMS/Phone alerts from any sources. It could be a CloudWatch, DataDog, self-hosted Alertmanager, or Grafana of course. The only requirement for the alert source is to be able to generate a webhook and send it to us.
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by bilalq on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:44PM (#29165629)
Can Grafana OnCall itself be self-hosted and/or run as a part of Grafana itself? Your last response makes it sound like it's a separate product with integrations rather than an extension of Grafana. Is that correct?
Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by motakuk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:57PM (#29165843)
It's 100% part of the Grafana Cloud, not a separate product. It's deeply integrated with the rest of Grafana.

Same time we've focused on making it useful for those who don't use Grafana for monitoring. Feel free to sign up in the Grafana Cloud and use just OnCall if you want.

Re:Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool by tex0 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:08AM (#29171602)
Is there automatic planning of upcoming shifts and compensation accounting? Or do you have to do that manually?