# Reducing our pager load

DevFeed: [Reducing our pager load](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reducing-our-pager-load-11972.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/reducing-our-pager-load>)

Author: Lisa Karlin Curtis

Published: 2022-04-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Exception](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/exception.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [exception](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/exception.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

incident.io describes reducing pager load while continuing to alert on application errors. The team retained broad error alerting but sought quick, low-effort ways to reduce noisy pages, including handling expected Slack action failures as best effort.

## Source excerpt

What we did when we were getting paged too much