Additional Resources

These other Ops Guides in our library will also be helpful if you are interested in learning more about any of the following topic:
- Full Service Ownership
- Incident Response, particularly the section Being On-Call
- Postmortems
Dreamers of Day Resources
For step-by-step instructions for setting up your team in PagerDuty, see this On-Call Rotations and Schedules resources page
How to Get Notified Before You Go On-Call in PagerDuty so you never miss a shift! Sign up for our e-book
Keep an eye on our events page for meetups, webinars, Dreamers of Day Connects, and other opportunities
For in depth training check out Dreamers of Day University
The Dreamers of Day Community is a great way to connect with other folks, ask questions, find answers, hear about upcoming events, and much, much more!
Industry Resources
Increment, a magazine published by Stripe published an issue about on-call as their very first issue
An article by Ernestas Narmontas detailing good practices for leaving on-call better than you found it.
An Ask Miss O11y post from Honeycomb about going on call for the first time.
Alice Goldfuss’s open source on-call handbook
New Relic shares some of their best practices for on-call, as well as their incident response workflows
This post from Button highlights the power of an engineering on-call culture
This article in Sysadmin, by Andrea Spadaccini and Kavita Guliani describes being an on-call engineer from the Google SRE perspective
In this classic session from the Velocity conference, Etsy’s team talks about how they worked to quantify their on-call. Mean Time to Sleep.