How to alert entire team + escalate to on-call engineer?

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Hi everyone,

We have a team of four engineers and I would like to set up alerting as below

-All engineers get SMS'd immediately

-If not ack'd after X minutes, call on-call engineer

-If not ac'd after a further X minutes, call specific person.

How would I achieve this? Thanks

Emirhan_53c5d9

Hello @[deleted], 

Thank you for contacting Opsgenie Community!

Within the escalation policies, you'll be able to configure which user/schedule/team should be notified if the alert is not acknowledged/closed within a defined period. Here is how your escalation policy should look:

 

The notification methods of how users receive notifications can be configured under the profile settings of each user. On the other hand, we do have a feature called Central Notification templates that provides the ability to define shared notification settings that are managed from a single place and can be assigned to user roles.

https://docs.opsgenie.com/docs/central-notification-templates

 

That being said, we do not generally recommend our customers to use SMS & Voice notifications at the very beginning of the notification flow while you have an email and mobile app notifications options. Mostly, the recommendation is using the SMS & Voice notifications as a back-up plan where your on-call users are not responding to the alerts, like 30 minutes later, after the alert created so you can have more aggressive notification flow if the expected actions are not taken. 

 

I hope my answer helps.

Please, feel free to let me know if you have anything else in mind, I would be happy to assist!