Changelog

All new releases and improvements to Spike

On-call and alert settings for mobile app

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The Spike mobile app now shows your complete on-call calendar.

You can stay informed with:

  • Who's on-call now
  • Who's up next
  • All your team's layers
  • Upcoming overrides

This gives you total visibility into your schedule, making team coordination simpler.

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You can now create on-call overrides directly from your phone.

Whether you're stepping into a meeting or need to swap shifts with a teammate, you can make these changes instantly without opening your laptop.

This flexibility saves you time and reduces the stress of last-minute schedule changes.

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We've revamped the mobile Settings section to match the desktop experience, with new options:

  • Phone call settings - Select your preferred call speed and voice
  • Messaging options - Customize how you receive notifications
  • Alert preferences - Control how and when you get resolve and on-call alerts

The redesigned layout offers clearer categories and a cleaner interface for faster adjustments.

Add Notes from Slack to Incidents

You can now add notes to incidents on Spike — without ever leaving Slack.

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Just open the incident’s Slack channel or find the incident alert on Slack,

  • Click the More actions menu, and select Add note.
  • Type your update, hit submit, and your note will show up instantly on the incident page in Spike.

This helps teams capture context and decisions while staying in the flow of incident response—no need to switch tabs or open the dashboard.

Learn more about Slack + Spike

Missed call alerts

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If you miss a phone call or direct message alert from Spike, you’ll now receive a missed call notification on the Spike mobile app. Additionally, if there are any issues delivering alerts via SMS, WhatsApp, or Telegram, the alert will also be sent to your mobile app.

This feature is enabled by default on your account.

Phone call preferences

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You can now customize voice preferences for your phone call alerts, choosing between male and female voices and adjusting the speech speed. This is particularly useful for teams with diverse global responders, as it allows them to select the voice and tempo that best suits their language preferences, listening clarity, or urgency level.

Phone call preferences

On-Call Shift Alerts on Discord

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We’ve added on-call shift alerts for Discord, making it easier to stay informed about your schedule right where your team communicates.

Receive on-call shift alerts via Discord when:

∟ Your shift starts
∟ Your shift ends
∟ There’s a handoff to another team member

You can use an existing Discord integration or set up a new one to start receiving notifications.

→ Set it up

→ Learn more

Get incidents from Updown.io

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We’re introducing Updown.io integration with Spike—so you can stay ahead of website downtime and performance issues with real-time alerts.

Receive alerts via Phone Calls, SMS, Slack, MS Teams, and more whenever:

∟ Your website goes down

∟ Response times exceed thresholds

∟ Your site returns unexpected status codes (e.g., 500 errors)

∟ Your SSL certificate is about to expire

⇾ Read the setup guide

This integration helps you detect and respond to website issues faster. Try it out and keep your site running smoothly.

Spike app for Freshdesk

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Spike is now available on Freshdesk's marketplace as a partnered integration. If you’re using Freshdesk for support, you can now seamlessly link it with Spike to bring your support and operations teams closer.

With this integration, you can: ∟ Create new incidents directly from Freshdesk tickets.

∟ Link existing incidents to keep everyone on the same page.

∟ Sync incident status updates—when an incident is acknowledged or resolved in Spike, it updates in Freshdesk automatically.

∟ Add notes from Freshdesk for better context and coordination with the on-call team.

→ Install Spike on Freshdesk

→ Read the guide

Replace on-call user with overrides

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Introducing a highly requested improvement to on-call management on Spike: User-Specific On-Call Overrides.

Previously, setting overrides for a specific person’s shifts over an extended period required adding multiple overrides manually. It worked, but we knew it could be better.

When adding an override, you can replace an individual’s on-call shifts for a specific time period in one go. Whether it’s for a few days or a couple of weeks, managing on-call schedules has never been this simple.

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  1. Press O or click Override from on-call page

  2. Select the user whose shifts you want to override.

  3. Define the replacement user and the time period.

  4. Save, and Spike will handle the rest—automatically adjusting all affected shifts.

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  1. Deepa replaces Steven from 1st Jan to 15th Jan while Steven is on leave.

  2. Raj replaces Neha for night shifts from 5th Feb to 10th Feb.

  3. Anjali steps in for Ravi for weekend coverage on 12th and 13th March.

Visit On-calls

Read the docs

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