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OpsGenie
Opsgenie, now Atlassian Opsgenie, is an on-call management and alert routing tool that ensures the right team member responds to incidents.
What is OpsGenie?
OpsGenie was founded in 2012 as an alert management and on-call scheduling platform built specifically for DevOps and SRE teams who needed something more structured than email or text messages for routing production incidents to the right engineer at the right time. The company was acquired by Atlassian in 2018 for $295 million and integrated into the Atlassian suite alongside Jira and Confluence, giving it reach into the large installed base of teams already using Atlassian products. OpsGenie provides alert ingestion from monitoring tools, on-call rotations, escalation policies, and an incident coordination layer.
The platform ingests alerts from hundreds of monitoring integrations — Datadog, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, New Relic, Pingdom, and many others — through a combination of native integrations and a generic webhook API. Incoming alerts are de-duplicated, correlated, and routed to the appropriate on-call team according to escalation policy rules. Notifications go out via push notification (iOS and Android), SMS, phone call, and email — with escalation to the next responder if the primary doesn't acknowledge within the configured timeout. The web interface provides an incident timeline, status communication tools, and post-mortem workflows integrated with Jira.
The critical challenge with an OpsGenie outage is that it breaks the safety net rather than a user-facing feature. When OpsGenie's notification infrastructure goes down, monitoring alerts from other tools stop reaching engineers. Production incidents that would normally wake someone up within seconds instead go unnoticed — the monitoring tool detected the problem and sent an alert, but the alert delivery layer failed silently. On-call engineers may not realize they're not receiving alerts until a separate escalation path or a customer report surfaces the incident. SMS and phone call delivery failures are particularly dangerous because these are the channels teams rely on when all other communication methods might also be degraded. The OpsGenie mobile app going offline removes the ability to acknowledge alerts even when they do arrive via push.
Outage.gg monitors OpsGenie's alert delivery infrastructure in real time. Check the live status page when alert delivery seems unusually quiet.
Common OpsGenie Problems
Issues users most frequently report when OpsGenie is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
Unable to find or join matches, long queue times, or errors when trying to connect to game servers.
Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about OpsGenie outages and server status.
You can check the live OpsGenie server status at outage.gg/services/opsgenie. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
OpsGenie can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/opsgenie and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the OpsGenie status page at outage.gg/services/opsgenie. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment OpsGenie comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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