Feature Tutorials
Feature Tutorial: On-Call Readiness Reports
Checks whether responders' notification rules meet a chosen readiness profile, and can email people who fall short with fix-it instructions.
An escalation policy only works if the people on it can actually be reached — and it's easy for a responder's notification rules to quietly fall out of date, with nobody finding out until a page gets missed at 3am.
On-Call Readiness Reports give managers and admins a team-filtered view of whether responders have their notification rules configured well enough to reliably receive a page. Each report is built around a readiness profile — from "Must include phone" up to "Never miss a page," which checks for every contact method plus delays between notification rules — and can optionally email the responders who fall short, with instructions on how to fix their setup.
Because responders with well-configured notification rules are less likely to miss a notification, tightening on-call readiness directly helps bring down mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), not just team morale around on-call.
On-Call Readiness Reports are available on the Business, Digital Operations (legacy), and Enterprise for Incident Management pricing plans.
Learn More
Read more about what On-Call Readiness Reports provide
- What's New: Change Impact Mapping, Visibility, and On-Call Improvements - the general-availability announcement, including Responder Readiness Templates as a mobile-app extension of the reports.
- New Ops Guide: Best Practices for On-Call Teams - covers how teams use the reports to set and enforce their own on-call notification standards.
Check out the training modules on PDU
- Analytics - Improving Performance — On-Call Readiness Reports' standalone PDU module has been consolidated into this course, alongside the Operational Maturity Report and User Onboarding Report.
Watch the click-through tutorial
Find the product documentation in our Knowledge Base
Other Resources
- PagerDuty Best Practices for On-Call Teams - PagerDuty's Ops Guide on introducing on-call to teams new to it, which walks through using On-Call Readiness Reports to set team-wide notification standards.