Incident/Ops - Incident Management for Slack

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Incident management that lives where your team works

Run incidents, manage on-call rotations, and generate clean postmortems—all without leaving Slack. Built for engineering teams who move fast.

Free incidents tracking. No credit card required.

Three commands. One complete postmortem.

No context switching. No manual note-taking. Just run incidents naturally in Slack.

1

Start an incident

Kick off tracking with a single command. Your team is notified instantly.

/incident start <severity> <incident title>

2

Log updates

Add timeline events as you go. Every update is captured automatically.

/incident status <update description>

3

Generate postmortem

AI analyzes the timeline and generates a clean, structured postmortem.

/incident postmortem

Everything you need for better incident response

From the first alert to the final review, IncidentOps captures what matters and helps your team learn from every incident.

Run incidents seamlessly

Manage incidents where your team already works. No context switching, no new tools to learn.

Simple Slack commands

Start, update, and resolve incidents with intuitive commands. No training required.

Automatic timeline capture

Every update is timestamped and organized. Never miss a detail during the chaos.

Severity tracking

Set and change severity levels (sev1-sev4) to prioritize response.

Starting an incident

$/incident startsev2Database timeout affecting checkout

→ Incident #142 started (SEV2)

$/incident severitysev1

→ Severity escalated to SEV1

$/incident statusIdentified slow query in orders table

→ Timeline updated

$/incident resolve

→ Incident #142 resolved (duration: 23m)

AI-powered postmortem

$/incident postmortem

→ Generating postmortem...

AI Postmortem

Summary: Database timeout caused checkout failures for ~23 minutes.

Root cause: Missing index on orders.created_at column.

Timeline:

- 10:00:00 - Incident started

- 10:05:00 - Identified slow query in orders table

- 10:10:00 - Added index, query time down to 50ms

- 10:15:00 - Incident resolved

Action items: Add index monitoring, query performance alerts.

Generate insights automatically

Let AI do the heavy lifting. Get comprehensive postmortems and build a searchable knowledge base.

AI-powered postmortems

Generate comprehensive postmortems with root cause analysis, action items, and lessons learned.

System of record

All incidents are persisted and searchable. Build institutional knowledge over time.

Export to Markdown

Share postmortems in your wiki, docs, or anywhere else. One click export.

Track trends & improve

Measure what matters. Spot patterns, reduce MTTR, and continuously improve your incident response.

Analytics dashboard

View incident trends, MTTR, and severity breakdown over time.

Incident list

Quick overview of recent incidents with severity and duration.

Incident history per channel

View past incidents by channel. Spot patterns and recurring issues.

Analytics & insights

$/incident list

→ 3 incidents this week

$/incident analytics7

→ Weekly stats: MTTR 18m, 3 incidents

$/incident history

→ 12 incidents in #payments (last 30 days)

On-call scheduling & rotations

$/oncall schedule@alice @bob @charlie7

→ Weekly rotation created with 3 engineers

$/oncall calendar

→ 📅 On-Call Calendar

🟢 @alice | Mon, Jan 1 → Mon, Jan 8

⚪ @bob | Mon, Jan 8 → Mon, Jan 15

⚪ @charlie | Mon, Jan 15 → Mon, Jan 22

$/oncall schedule add@newengineer

→ Added @newengineer to rotation

$/oncall

→ Current on-call: @alice (5 days remaining)

Automated on-call rotations

Set up automated schedules, view your on-call calendar, and let rotations happen automatically—all managed from Slack.

Automated scheduling

Create rotation schedules with your team. Set duration (daily, weekly, bi-weekly) and let handoffs happen automatically.

On-call calendar

View upcoming shifts at a glance. See who's on-call next week or next month with /oncall calendar.

Flexible rotation management

Add or remove engineers from the rotation anytime. The schedule automatically adjusts.

Channel notifications

Configure a channel to receive on-call updates. Never miss a rotation change.

Page engineers instantly

When incidents occur, page the right people immediately. Slack-native paging with optional PagerDuty integration for phone/SMS alerts.

Slack-native paging

Page engineers via Slack DM with an interactive Acknowledge button. No context switching.

Auto-escalation

Unacknowledged pages automatically escalate to the next person in your escalation chain.

Auto-page on incident

Configure severity levels that automatically page the on-call engineer when incidents start.

Paging engineers

$/page oncallDatabase is down

→ Paging @sarah (on-call)...

$/page@mikeNeed your help ASAP

→ Paging @mike via Slack + PagerDuty

$/page ack

→ Page acknowledged by @sarah

$/page status

→ 1 active page (acked), 0 pending

Integrate with your stack

Connect IncidentOps with the tools you already use. Create tickets, sync action items, and keep everything in one place.

Jira Integration

Create Jira tickets directly from Slack with a single command. Track action items and follow-ups without leaving your workflow.

PagerDuty Integration

Connect PagerDuty for phone/SMS alerts. Pages sync via webhook—ack in PagerDuty and it updates in Slack automatically.

Coming soon

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GitHub Issues

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Creating a Jira ticket

$/incident jiraAdd database index monitoring

→ Creating ticket...

Ticket: INC-847

Title: Add database index monitoring

Linked to: Incident #142

Why teams choose IncidentOps

We built incident management the way it should be — fast to set up, simple to use, and powerful when it matters most.

Slack-native

No new dashboards to learn. Run incidents, manage on-call, and generate postmortems without ever leaving Slack.

Setup in minutes

Install once, start using immediately. No complex configurations, no training required — just intuitive slash commands your team already knows.

Scales with you

From startups to enterprise. Unlimited incidents on free, powerful analytics and integrations when you need them. Pricing that grows with your team.

Simple, transparent pricing

Start free, upgrade when you need more power.

Free

  • Unlimited incidents
  • Severity tracking (sev1-sev4)
  • Basic timeline capture
  • Incident list view
  • On-call management
  • On-call handoffs & history
  • Slack-native paging
  • 10 free AI-powered postmortems

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$29/month

  • Everything in Free
  • AI-powered postmortems
  • Incident analytics
  • On-call analytics
  • PagerDuty integration
  • Auto-escalation & auto-page
  • Jira integration
  • Export to Markdown
  • Priority support

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