Before you beginYou need the cluck CLI, a Pollosoft account, and a coop to work in. No prior experience required. Curiosity and a mild fondness for chickens are helpful.
Overview
Set up schedules, escalations, and alerts that respect people's sleep. The whole thing takes about 9 minutes, and the commands below are the ones you will use along the way.
$ cluck pager schedule create primary
$ cluck pager escalate primary --after 5m
$ cluck crow --testSteps
- Create a schedule. Add hens to a weekly rotation. PeckPager handles time zones and handoffs automatically.
- Define escalation. If the first hen does not acknowledge within five minutes, wake the next one. After fifteen, wake the rooster.
- Route alerts. Only page for things that need a human. Everything else becomes a ticket or a quiet cluck in chat.
- Test it. Run a test page once a quarter. A pager that has never rung is just a decorative brick.
Commands used
Keep going
- Migrating from the barn to the coop (20 min)
- Free-range functions: cold starts and warm eggs (11 min)
- Candling your data (10 min)
Stuck? Check the error codes, the FAQ, or the glossary.