# Guides

> Short, practical guides for people running apps without an ops team.

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

- [On-call for small teams](https://pagerless.dev/guides/on-call-for-small-teams): A practical setup for one to ten people, in the order you'd do it.
- [Designing an escalation policy](https://pagerless.dev/guides/escalation-policies): Who gets the alert, by what channel, how long before the next person, and what never escalates.
- [Writing a blameless postmortem](https://pagerless.dev/guides/postmortems): A postmortem is for the next incident, not the last one. Keep it short, specific and blameless.
- [SLOs for small apps](https://pagerless.dev/guides/slos-for-small-apps): You don't need a reliability team to use SLOs. Two indicators and one honest target are enough to start.
- [Alerting checklist for apps built with AI](https://pagerless.dev/guides/alerting-for-ai-built-apps): Ten minutes of setup that saves your first bad night.
- [Monitoring scheduled jobs](https://pagerless.dev/guides/cron-monitoring): Jobs fail silently. Here is how to make them fail loudly, without a pager for every hiccup.