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title: "Attach the schedule to the escalation chain | Grafana Labs"
description: "Update the escalation chain to reference your on-call schedule and test that real users are notified."
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# Attach the schedule to the escalation chain

In this milestone, you update your escalation chain to reference the on-call schedule you created. When an escalation step targets a schedule, IRM resolves the current on-call user and notifies that user based on their notification rules.

To attach the schedule, complete the following steps:

1. In the IRM navigation menu, click **Escalation chains**.
2. Open your escalation chain.
3. In the first escalation step, open **Select schedule**.
4. Choose your on-call schedule from the dropdown (for example, `Production SRE`).

Changes are saved automatically.

The escalation chain now routes Alert groups to the current on-call responder, waits 5 minutes, then escalates to the broader team if unacknowledged.

In the next milestone, you configure personal notification rules to define preferred notification methods.

> Did you know?
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> You can configure and managed IRM as-code using Terraform or the Grafana IRM API. To learn more, refer to the [Infrastructure as Code for Grafana IRM documentation](/docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/irm/set-up/infra-as-code/)