Help and Documentation
Notifications

Getting Started

10min

Learn about Rootly's notifications and how to get yourself setup.

To update your notifications:

  1. Navigate to Account Settings --> Notifications.
  2. Select General or On-Call Notifications.

General Notifications

For general Email Notifications, you have the following options to :

Weekly summary of all Incidents in the previous week

When an action item is assigned to me

When an incident role is assigned to me

When a postmortem is published

Rootly product updates, events and news



For general Slack Notifications, you have the following options:

When an action item is assigned to me

When an Incident role is assigned to me

When you are invited to join an Incident

When your user appears in the initial incident message mention your user (ex. @rootly_bot)

When your user appears in Slack incident events mention your user (ex. @rootly_bot)

On-Call Notifications

On-Call Shift Reminders

On-call shift reminders will be toggled on by default.

To update your on-call shift reminders:

  1. Navigate to Account Settings -->Notifications -> On-Call Notifications
  2. Select General or On-Call Notifications

Reminders can sent 1 hour, 1 day, and 3 days before the beginning of a shift via:

  • Email
  • SMS
  • Push Notifications
  • Slack

Notification Rules

Notification rules will always have one layer that cannot be removed.

To update your on-call shift reminders:

  1. Navigate to Account Settings --> Notifications -> On-Call Notifications.
  2. To add an additional notification rule layer, click 'Add Step'.
  3. Specify how many minutes you would like this new layer to notify you.
  4. Select your notification preferences for each layer you add:
    • Email
    • SMS
    • Call
    • Push Notification
  5. Test your notification rule layer; click on 'Test'.
  6. To delete a notification rule layer, click on 'Delete'.