Distribute incident response time across an on-call team.
Spreading the week's incidents across engineers and multiplying by response time gives each person's load, including an average nightly share. On-call pages disrupt sleep and focus, so an explicit load number makes it clear when a rotation is becoming unsustainable.
On-Call Load
Per engineer = incidents / engineers x minutes each; nightly = weekly / 7
Per engineer = incidents / engineers x minutes each; nightly = weekly / 7 Spreading the week's incidents across engineers and multiplying by response time gives each person's load, including an average nightly share.
On-call pages disrupt sleep and focus, so an explicit load number makes it clear when a rotation is becoming unsustainable.
This calculator takes 3 inputs: On-call engineers, Incidents per week, Minutes per incident. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.