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Assign Bugs and Tickets to the Current On-Call, Automatically

There is a particular kind of ticket that costs more than it should. It is filed correctly, it has a good description, it is in the right project, and it has nobody's name on it. It sits in the queue for two days because everyone who looks at the board assumes someone else has it. Then a customer follows up, someone notices, and the fix takes twenty minutes. The gap was never engineering time. It was ownership.

PD Automation Runner: Automation That Finally Reaches Your On-Prem Stack

This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PD Automation Runner, now in Early Access, builds towards this vision. Your on-call engineer gets paged for a critical alert on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster. If this were a cloud-hosted service, Workflow Actions and the SRE Agent would already be working the problem: pulling logs, checking health, surfacing a fix.

See It, Approve It, Revoke It: Scoped OAuth for Public Apps

This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how Scoped OAuth for Public Apps, now in Early Access, builds towards this vision. Your security team asks a simple question during a routine review: which third-party apps can reach our PagerDuty data right now, and what exactly can they do with it?

Managing Dedicated Lines in OnPage | How to Set up Dedicated Lines

Learn how to set up and manage Dedicated Lines in OnPage. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll walk through how to configure your Dedicated Lines to control how incoming calls are received, processed, and routed. You’ll learn how to:✓ Configure basic line details✓ Customize call processing behavior✓ Set up interactive routing menus✓ Add caller instructions and prompts✓ Review and save your Dedicated Line settings.

Identity Provider Outage: The On-Call Blast Radius

An identity provider outage is the one failure mode where your dashboards stay green and your entire company stops working anyway. On August 31, 2026, Microsoft acknowledged a widespread Exchange Online incident at 5:30 PM UTC, tracked as EX1464935, and described it in the admin center as "a common failure pattern across affected Exchange Online requests that is associated with authentication and protocol connectivity." Tens of thousands of users were affected according to Downdetector.