Automate your team’s on-call rotations directly inside Jira — no extra tools, no manual coordination, no missed incidents.
On Call Scheduler keeps the right person on call at all times by automatically cycling through your team and updating Jira’s notification scheme. When a new issue is created, the person on call gets notified instantly. When their shift ends, the next team member takes over — automatically.
Why Teams Use On Call Scheduler
Managing on-call manually is error-prone. People forget to hand off. Notification settings get stale. The wrong person wakes up at 3am — or worse, nobody does.
On Call Scheduler eliminates that by handling the entire lifecycle: who’s on call, when they rotate, and making sure Jira always reflects the current state.
How It Works
- Connect your team group. Pick any existing Jira user group as the source for your rotation. No need to create new groups or duplicate your roster.
- Choose a rotation cadence. Set rotations to happen daily, weekly, or monthly — whatever fits your team’s rhythm.
- Let it run. The app automatically advances the rotation on schedule and updates Jira’s notification scheme so the right person receives issue alerts.
Every time a new issue is created in the project, Jira notifies whoever is currently on call — via email, Slack, or any other notification channel your team already uses in Jira.
Key Features
- Automatic daily, weekly, and monthly rotations — set it once and forget it
- Timezone-aware scheduling — rotations happen at the right local time, DST-safe
- Works with existing Jira groups — no need to reconfigure your team
- Native Jira notifications — uses Jira’s built-in notification scheme, so your existing email and app integrations keep working
- Manual rotation override — need to swap someone out mid-shift? One click and it’s done
- Multiple rotation groups per project — run separate schedules for frontend, backend, infrastructure, or any other team
- Always see who’s on call — the scheduler page shows the current on-call person for every group at a glance
Built for Jira Cloud
On Call Scheduler is built on Atlassian Forge — Atlassian’s secure, cloud-native app platform. Your data stays inside your Jira environment. No third-party services, no data leaving your instance.
Get Started in Minutes
- Install On Call Scheduler from the Atlassian Marketplace
- Open any Jira project and go to the On-call scheduler tab
- Create your first rotation group and save — your first on-call person is assigned immediately
From that point on, your team’s on-call schedule runs itself.