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.

In Pagerless

Called wake: push first, then a phone call through your own Twilio account.

On call
Being the person responsible for responding when a production system breaks during a set period, including outside working hours.
Alert fatigue
When responders receive so many alerts, many not actionable, that they start ignoring or muting them and miss the ones that matter.

Updated October 22, 2026.

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Paging

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On call

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