Topic: on-call
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Alert routing: grouping, inhibition, silences and escalation policies
Between a firing alert and a phone lie four decisions: which team and channel receive it (routing tree), which alerts travel together (grouping with group_wait, group_interval and repeat_interval), which are muted because a cause alert already explains them (inhibition) or because maintenance is planned (silences), and how long a responder has before the page escalates to the next person.
Machine-readable: JSON