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What is Oncall Shift?

Oncall Shift A defined time period during which a designated team member is responsible for responding to alerts and incidents as the primary on-call engineer.

Source: ITIL v4, AWS Well-Architected Framework, Kubernetes Documentation, CNCF

How is “Oncall Shift” Used in Practice?

The oncall shift schedule is published weekly to ensure all incident alerts have a designated primary responder.

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Who Needs to Know This Term?

  • DevOps Engineers
  • SREs
  • Platform Engineers

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What is Oncall Shift?

A defined time period during which a designated team member is responsible for responding to alerts and incidents as the primary on-call engineer.

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