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Know who's on call. Hand off without losing the thread.

Rotaline builds fair on-call rotations, routes alerts to the right person, and turns every shift change into a written handoff.

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For engineering teams of 5 to 50. Free for 14 days, no credit card.

On-call teams at these companies use Rotaline

  • Northgate Labs
  • Plinth
  • Corvid Systems
  • Halden Bank
  • Murmur

What Rotaline does

Six things every rotation needs, in the order a shift uses them.

Before the shift

Rotation builder

Three patterns

Daily, weekly or follow-the-sun rotations across time zones, with each handoff set in the local time of the person taking over.

Swaps and overrides

Two clicks

Request a swap in two clicks. The team lead approves it from email or chat, and everyone's schedule updates.

Calendar sync

Google, Outlook, iCal

Shifts appear in Google Calendar, Outlook or any iCal client, and move when the rota does.

During the shift

Escalation policies

Push, SMS, call

Multi-step escalation by push notification, SMS and phone call, so an alert keeps moving until someone acknowledges it.

At the shift change

Handoff notes

Every shift

A structured note at every shift change, with open incidents carried over to the next person automatically.

Fairness report

Per person

On-call hours per person, including nights and weekends, so the load stays even.

How it works

First, connect your alerts.

Connect your alerting tools with a webhook or one of 40 built-in integrations.

Then build the rotation.

Build a rotation and an escalation policy for each service.

Last, hand off in writing.

Hand off at the end of each shift. Rotaline reminds the outgoing person and notifies the incoming one.

Alert sources

2 connected · 40 integrations available

  • DatadogConnected
  • GrafanaConnected
  • Sentry
  • Prometheus Alertmanager
Or send anything to this webhook

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Rotation and escalation policy

Saved
Rotation
Weekly, Mondays 09:00
People
Priya, Tom, Lena, Sam, Mei
Time zone
Each person's own
  1. Push to whoever is on callat once
  2. SMS, then a phone callafter 3 min
  3. Call the team lead, Priya Nairafter 15 min

Your shift ends in 30 minutes

To Tom Becker · Mon 08:30

Write the handoff for Lena: 2 incidents are still open and will carry over.

You're on call for Checkout API

To Lena Ortiz · Mon 09:00

Tom's handoff is ready. Read it before your first page.

After the switch

38%
fewer missed pages, because an alert climbs the escalation policy until someone answers it.
4 min
median time to acknowledge a page, from the first push to a person saying they have it.
2,100
teams on Rotaline, sharing the pager across offices, nights and holidays.

Fairness report · Checkout API

1 Jul to 30 Sep 2026 · on-call hours

Priya Nair
442
Tom Becker
446
Lena Ortiz
436
Sam Okafor
440
Mei Chen
437
WeekdayNightsWeekends

Spread between most and least loaded: 10 hours, or 2.3%. Nobody carried more than one holiday weekend.

The fairness report, as a team lead sees it at the end of a quarter.

From the people holding the pager

Ravi Menon · Site Reliability Engineer, Halden Bank

12 Mar 2026

The handoff note is the feature I didn't know I needed. I start every shift knowing what's still burning.

on the handoff for Mon 09:00

Dana Whitfield · Engineering Manager, Plinth

We used to argue about who covered the holidays. Now the fairness report settles it before anyone asks.

14 Mar 2026

Sofia Brandt · Head of Infrastructure, Corvid Systems

Setting up follow-the-sun across three offices took one afternoon.

15 Mar 2026

Priced per person on the rota

Billing
Save up to 22% a year

Free

$0for up to 5 users, for good

For a small team trying its first rotation.

  • Up to 5 users
  • 1 rotation
  • Push and email alerts
Start for free

Team Most popular

$9per user per month, billed monthly

For teams that pass the pager every week.

  • Unlimited rotations
  • SMS and phone alerts
  • Handoff notes
  • Calendar sync
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Business

$16per user per month, billed monthly

For larger teams with security reviews and audits to pass.

  • Everything in Team, plus
  • SSO and SAML
  • Audit log
  • Fairness report
  • 99.95% uptime SLA
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Questions, answered

Can I import my existing schedule from a spreadsheet?

Yes. Upload a CSV or paste rows from Google Sheets or Excel, and Rotaline matches names to your team and turns the dates into shifts. You review the result before anything is saved.

What happens if nobody acknowledges an alert?

The alert moves to the next step of the escalation policy after the delay you set, by SMS, a phone call or the next person. If every step runs out, the policy starts again and the team lead is told.

Do you charge for SMS and phone calls?

No. SMS and phone alerts are included in the Team and Business price, with no per-message fees. The Free plan sends push and email alerts only.

Can contractors or people outside my company be on a rotation?

Yes. Invite anyone by email address. They count as a user on your plan, and you can limit them to the rotations and services they cover.

How does the free trial work?

You get every Team feature free for 14 days, with no credit card. At the end, choose a plan, or your workspace moves to the Free plan and keeps your first rotation.

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