Solving incidents is hard. Depending on your current situation, you may also be losing a lot of time figuring out what notifications constitute an incident….

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PagerDuty released Multi-User Alerting in early 2014, which allowed notifying and assigning multiple people when an incident is triggered. In addition to assigning multiple users to an incident, multi-user alerting also makes it possible for an incident to have multiple acknowledgers. This post will demonstrate the changes we made to our data model to implement multi-user alerting and the resulting sophistication added to our SQL queries to maintain their performance.

Keeping our customers happy is a source of pride at PagerDuty. While having a reliable product that is loved by our customers makes our lives…