Incident Management Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Apr 26, 2026 4 min read

The On-Call Tool Belt

What the on-call needs in 30 seconds. The tool belt and the keyboard shortcuts.

The tools

Dashboard. Incident channel. Runbook search. Logs UI. Trace UI.

All bookmarked; all accessible in 1-2 clicks from the alert.

Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts for the tools used most. Investment pays back daily.

Documented; shared with new on-calls.

Integrations

Page → context-loaded dashboard.

Reduces the 'where do I look' overhead.