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# On-call Schedule Management **(PREMIUM)**
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4544) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.10.
Use on-call schedule management to create schedules for responders to rotate on-call
responsibilities. Maintain the availability of your software services by putting your teams on-call.
With an on-call schedule, your team is notified immediately when things go wrong so they can quickly
respond to service outages and disruptions.
To use on-call schedules, you must do the following:
1.[Create a schedule](#schedules).
1.[Add a rotation to the schedule](#rotations).
If you have at least Maintainer [permissions](../../user/permissions.md)
to create a schedule, you can do this manually.
## Schedules
Set up an on-call schedule for your team to add rotations to.
Follow these steps to create a schedule:
1. Go to **Operations > On-call Schedules** and select **Add a schedule**.
1. In the **Add schedule** form, enter the schedule's name and description, and select a timezone.
1. Click **Add schedule**.
You now have an empty schedule with no rotations. This renders as an empty state, prompting you to