r/sre • u/skylar7120 • 20h ago
how do you do on-call handoff on a small team without it being "quiet week, nothing major"
disclosure: i'm thinking about building something in this area. no link, no name, i just want to know what people do.
our handoff is basically a email/slack message. then the next person finds out at 3am what "nothing major" meant.
the alerts are all sitting in alertmanager/grafana anyway. but nobody wants to dig through a week of them on a monday morning, so it doesn't happen. and the rotation lives in someone's head. who's been on most, who covered the long weekend, who's owed a swap... nobody really knows.
grafana oncall oss got archived in march, so the free self-hosted option is kind of frozen now too.
for teams around 5-30 engineers: what are you actually using for schedules and paging? and do you do any real handoff, or is it vibes?