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IT On-Call Handover (Voice-First)

A 60–180 second on-call handover that turns voice into a structured, actionable shift summary.

IT On-Call Handover (Voice-First)
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Use at the end of an on-call shift or rotation. Keep it brutally short: headline + what’s still active + what changed + what’s silenced + the next concrete actions. Voice-first prompt suggestion: “Summarize the last 12 hours for Payments. Overall status degraded. Active incident: elevated latency on /charge, mitigated but spikes remain. Recent changes: deployed v2.31.0, enabled retry flag. Silenced alert: 5xx low-volume until 02:00. Watchouts: partner load test at 23:00. Next actions: add dashboard panel, update status channel.”

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Context
Service / Area*
Text
What you were on call for (service, team, system)
[not set]
Handover Time*
Date & Time
📅⏰ Date & time
Coverage Window*
Text
What period this handover summarizes (e.g., last 12h)
[not set]
Overall Status*
Text
NormalDegradedIncident ongoingUnknown
Normal
Degraded
Incident ongoing
Unknown
What matters
Headline*
Text
1 sentence: the one thing the next on-call should know.
[not set]
Active / Ongoing Incidents
List
Only incidents still in progress or likely to recur.
IncidentImpactCurrent statusNext stepLink (ticket/incident)
+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add
Watchouts / Risks
Text Area
Known risks, expected spikes, fragile dependencies, vendor issues.
Known risks, expected spikes, fragile dependencies, vendor issues.
Continuity
Recent Changes (last 24–48h)
List
Deploys, config changes, migrations, feature flags.
ChangeWhenRiskNotesLink (PR/release)
+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add
Silenced / Muted Alerts
List
Anything suppressed that could surprise the next shift.
AlertWhy silencedUntilLink
+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add
Next Actions
List
Concrete tasks to carry over.
ActionOwnerPriorityDueLink (ticket)
+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add+ Add
Key Links
Text Area
Dashboards, runbooks, status pages, escalation contacts.
Dashboards, runbooks, status pages, escalation contacts.
EXAMPLE REPORTSample data — shows what you’ll get after recording

Example filled report

Context
Service / Area
Payments API (Team SRE)
Handover Time
02/12/2026 9:55 PM
Coverage Window
Last 12 hours
Overall Status
Degraded
What matters
Headline
Intermittent elevated latency on /charge started after the 17:10 deploy; rollback helped but we still see spikes under load.
Active / Ongoing Incidents
IncidentImpactCurrent statusNext stepLink (ticket/incident)
Elevated latency on /chargeHighMitigated, still intermittent spikesCheck DB connection pool saturation during peak; consider reducing pool size + verify autoscalingINC-1842
Watchouts / Risks
Partner X is running a load test 23:00–00:00. If p95 latency exceeds 800ms for 5+ minutes, page DB on-call.
Continuity
Recent Changes (last 24–48h)
ChangeWhenRiskNotesLink (PR/release)
Deploy payments-service v2.31.017:10MediumEnabled new retry logic behind flag payments_retry_v2PR-8821
Silenced / Muted Alerts
AlertWhy silencedUntilLink
payments-service 5xx spike (low-volume)Noisy during partner sandbox load tests2026-02-13T02:00:00ZPD-SCHEDULE-113
Next Actions
ActionOwnerPriorityDueLink (ticket)
Add dashboard panel for DB pool saturation + queue depthIncoming on-callHighTonightTASK-551
Write brief incident update in #status-paymentsOutgoing on-callMediumEnd of shiftINC-1842
Key Links
Dashboards: https://grafana.example.com/d/payments Runbook: https://runbooks.example.com/payments Escalation: https://pager.example.com/escalations/payments
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