# Acknowledgement

> A responder's signal that they have seen an alert and are handling it, which stops further escalation.

URL: https://pagerless.dev/glossary/acknowledgement
Updated: 2026-10-22

## In Pagerless

Tap I'm on it in the push, or press 1 during the call.

## Related terms

- [Escalation policy](https://pagerless.dev/glossary/escalation-policy): The rules for who is alerted, in what order, and how long to wait before moving to the next person when nobody acknowledges.
- [Paging](https://pagerless.dev/glossary/paging): Interrupting a person to demand attention now, usually by push notification, phone call or SMS, named after the pagers on-call engineers once carried.