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The on-call handoff note, written before the shift changes
Mitra writes your on-call handoff note. Every Monday at 9am the agent reads the week's PagerDuty pages and matches them to the fixes merged in GitHub. A Notion note covers what paged, what caused it and what is still unresolved, and the summary goes to Slack.
Every Monday at 9am, write a handoff note in Notion from the week's PagerDuty incidents. Post a short version to #on-call.
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What the agent actually does.
Read the week's pages
The agent reads every PagerDuty incident from the past seven days, with who was paged and how long it took.
Pair each page with its fix
Incidents are matched to the pull requests and commits that closed them, so the note says what changed.
Separate open from closed
Anything without a resolution or a merged fix goes into an open list, with how long it has been sitting.
Write the note in Notion
One dated page per shift: what paged, what caused it, what changed, and what the next person inherits.
Post the summary
A short version lands in the on-call channel as the shift starts, linking to the full note.
Make it yours.
For teams who hand on-call over weekly, where the handoff is a verbal summary from whoever remembers the worst night. Change any of this by saying so — there is nothing to rewire.
- Send the note to the incoming on-call instead of posting in the channel.
- Run at the end of the shift, while the week is still fresh.
- Add a count of pages per service, so the noisiest one is obvious.
Questions, answered.
What should an on-call handoff note include?
How do I hand off an incident that isn't fixed yet?
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