Frequently Asked Questions

What is Flashduty On-call?

Flashduty On-call is an all-in-one alert response platform. We provide IT professionals with On-call scheduling, alert noise reduction, escalation, and automation capabilities to accelerate incident response and minimize losses.

Is Flashduty On-call right for me?

You should use Flashduty On-call if your organization or team has the following needs:

Need a centralized place to collect, manage, track, and analyze alerts from all sources within your company.

Need to classify alerts and notify key personnel through different channels dynamically, with automatic escalation processes to prevent unhandled alerts.

Spend most of your time handling alerts and need noise reduction solutions to address alert fatigue.

How does Flashduty On-call pricing work?

Flashduty On-call's pricing model is based on the number of licenses purchased, where each license corresponds to one account member. For example, if you only purchase one license, only one member can use all features of Flashduty On-call. However, you can still invite more members to join, but only members with licenses can perform operational configurations on the platform, while other members cannot use any platform features (limited to receiving incident notifications only). The specific differences are as follows:

License Allocation Methods

Administrators can actively allocate licenses to different members.

When allocating licenses, you can set the license type.

Fixed type: Valid for the entire purchase period, cannot be preempted, suitable for scenarios requiring participation in incident handling and business configuration.

Temporary type: Automatically released at the end of each cycle, can be occupied through allocation or preemption when sufficient licenses are available.

Members Without Licenses

Cannot use any features, including viewing incident lists/details, can only passively receive alert messages, such as receiving incident messages via email, SMS, phone calls, or IM group messages.

When configuring assignment strategies, you can choose to notify members without licenses about incident messages.

Members without licenses, even if they receive incident messages, cannot view, close, or perform other operations on them.

Members without licenses share the tenant's email, SMS, and phone package quotas.

Members without licenses will be prompted that they don't have permission when trying to view/handle operations after logging into the console.

What notification methods does Flashduty On-call support?

Channel	Direct Message	Group Chat
Voice	✅
SMS	✅
Email	✅
Feishu/Lark App	✅	✅
Dingtalk App	✅	✅
WeCom App	✅
Slack App	✅	✅
Microsoft Teams App	✅	✅
Feishu/Lark Bot		✅
Dingtalk Bot		✅
WeCom Bot		✅
Zoom Bot		✅
Telegram Bot		✅

Does Flashduty On-call use fixed numbers for voice notifications?

It depends on the region where notifications are sent. You can download the Flashduty On-call app and authorize automatic contact synchronization:

Mainland China: (010)21364727, (010)21364713 and (010)21364708

United States, Canada: 16465861127

Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan: 16465861127

Other regions are not currently supported for voice notifications. If you have requirements, please contact us: support@flashcat.cloud

How does Flashduty On-call ensure I receive notifications?

Flashduty On-call strives to ensure the availability of every notification channel.

Voice, SMS, and Email: We use highly available services from multiple cloud providers and can quickly switch to another if one experiences issues.

IM App Messages: If IM app direct messages fail to send, the system will fall back to SMS and email notifications.

Escalation Rule Settings: We recommend setting up loop notifications where the system will notify multiple times if an incident isn't acknowledged. Alternatively, set up escalation levels where the incident will be assigned to the next level if current responders don't handle it promptly.

Why am I not receiving voice notifications?

Voice calls are highly dependent on terminal signals and settings. If you consistently can't receive voice notifications, try these steps:

If you're using a phone number registered outside mainland China, check our supported regions.

Check if your phone's blocklist or call history has blocked numbers around the time of the call, usually starting with 010xxx or 021xx. If found, remove them from the blocklist and whitelist them.

If no blocklist is found, your phone number might have blocking services enabled: China Mobile users can check blocked fixed-line calls through the WeChat public account "China Mobile High-frequency Harassment Call Protection"; China Telecom users might experience call blocking when receiving SMS, check through "Tianyi Anti-harassment" public account; China Unicom users can check through "WO Assistant" public account or contact customer service.

If you've participated in number portability, please check blocking settings with multiple carriers.

Try restarting your phone, reinserting your SIM card, or testing the SIM card in another phone to rule out terminal or SIM card issues.

If you still can't identify the cause, please contact us.

Why am I not receiving email notifications?

Try these steps:

Check your email client's spam folder. If found there, please move the emails to inbox and mark as not spam.

Check if your email client has auto-delete rules set up. If yes, please modify the rules.

Contact your company's email administrator to check if emails are being blocked (Enterprise email services like Gmail have strict limitations and may block frequent emails). If blocked, please whitelist the email source.

If you still can't identify the cause, please contact us.

Can Flashduty On-call route alerts based on alert fields?

Yes, Flashduty On-call allows you to match multiple dimensions of alert events, including labels, severity, title, and description, and route them to different channels. See Integration Center - Integration Details - Route Configuration.

What alert systems can Flashduty On-call integrate with?

Generic Integrations: Email alerts (works with almost all alert systems); Custom Event Standard (for self-developed monitoring systems).

Open Source Integrations: Zabbix, Prometheus, Nightingale, and other common open-source monitoring tools.

Commercial Integrations: Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure, and other commercial cloud monitoring services.

If you have other requirements, please feel free to contact us.

How does Flashduty On-call charge?

We charge based on active users and offer three different versions: Free, Standard, and Pro. For detailed comparison, visit: https://flashcat.cloud/flashduty/price/

We define active users as those who use commercial features in the current month, requiring a license.

At the end of each monthly cycle, fixed licenses for active users remain valid, while temporary licenses are released and must be reclaimed for the next cycle.

When a member is deleted, their license is automatically released.

Viewing alerts requires a license; passively receiving notifications does not.

How does Flashduty On-call ensure its own stability?

Flashduty On-call SLA:

Feature Availability: Core features must be available 99.95% of the time

Delivery Efficiency: 99.95% of alerts must be delivered within 5 minutes of triggering

How Flashduty On-call maintains SLA:

Multi-active in Same City: Infrastructure built across multiple data centers, with stateful components all multi-active in the same city

Asynchronous Processing: Alerts enter async processing immediately after submission, with retry mechanisms to reduce alert loss risk

Redundant Notifications: Provides redundant notification mechanisms for important alerts, with optional multiple channel loop notifications

Global Acceleration: Enabled for api.flashcat.cloud domain to ensure stable reporting from all locations

Continuous Monitoring: Comprehensive system metrics collection, regular stress testing to identify system issues proactively

How does Flashduty On-call ensure data security?

Full-stack HTTPS ensuring secure data transmission

Encrypted storage for sensitive information, logs stored with sensitive data masked

MFA verification required for important data modifications, with operation audit support

Regular participation in internationally recognized third-party security certification audits (ISO27001, ISO9001)

NDA available for clients who require it

Does Flashduty On-call support on-premises deployment?

Yes, Flashduty On-call offers an on-premises version nearly identical to the SaaS service. However, due to high maintenance costs, on-premises deployment has a different pricing model than SaaS. Unless necessary, we recommend using our cloud service.

Please contact us if you need the on-premises version.

What advantages does Flashduty On-call have over other platforms?

We provide more flexible and user-friendly features

We offer more professional and attentive service

We provide more reasonable product pricing

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Members Without Licenses