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January 2022

What's New: Updates to Event Intelligence, On-Call Management, Automation, Mobile, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty platform. Recent updates from the product team include On-Call Management, Event Intelligence, and Mobile Products, to PagerDuty Community & Advocacy Events.

Intelligent Service Design

Hello and welcome to the fourth post in our EI Architecture series focusing on Intelligent Alert Grouping. Previously we have talked about how to train Intelligent Alert Grouping using incident merges (here) and how to configure your alert titles to improve default matching. In this post, we’re going to cover how service design can also impact your experience with Intelligent Alert Grouping as well as the PagerDuty app in general.

Training Intelligent Alert Grouping

We’re continuing on with our third piece about how to utilize and improve your Intelligent Alert Grouping (IAG)! In case you missed it, the first two blog posts describe the feature (here) and explain how it uses merging to group alerts (here). We alluded to today’s post at the end of last: today we’ll be discussing how to use alert titles to improve IAG matches.

Using Event Orchestration to reduce noise and trigger next best action

We often hear from customers that they’re dealing with unmanageable levels of noise and complexity, which makes it harder to pinpoint root cause and get to resolution quickly. All this effort spent on sifting through noise, processing events, and gathering context results in a lot of wasted time. That’s why we’ve launched Event Orchestration, which became generally available to our Event Intelligence and Digital Operations customers on Monday.

Event Orchestration Demo: Reduce Noise & Manage Event Routing with PagerDuty

Say hello to the next generation of event rules and cut down on manual event processing. With Event Orchestration, you can create custom logic with nested rules to enrich, modify, and control routing or trigger automation actions based on event conditions at scale. (This feature is only available to Event Intelligence and Digital Operations plans).

AWS Re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate Your Cloud Migration for Financial Services

Cloud migration and modernization projects for financial services are very complex initiatives with added challenges of visibility and incident response. He’s how we can help accelerate cloud adoption while reducing customer impact and streamlining and automating incident response.

Respond to incidents faster than ever with the New Mobile Incident Details Redesign

We’re working from anywhere, are you? With the PagerDuty mobile app, you’re always just a tap away from all the incident response tools you need. The new mobile Incident Details screen provides you with a more compelling visual experience and easier access to all your favorite features during incident response. Run a play, add a priority or note, post a status update, and more with the new carousel.

Improve Incident Response by Getting Control of Your (Unintelligent) Swarm

Incidents happen. Things go wrong. Systems fail. Sometimes they fail in unexpected and dramatic ways that create Major Incidents. PagerDuty makes a very specific distinction between an incident and an Incident. Your organization may also make such a distinction. Determining if an incident is major or not can come down to a number of factors, or a specific combination of factors, like the number of services affected, the customer impact, and the duration of the incident.

Want to accelerate your organization's digital innovation in 2022? Here's three ways to do it.

After two years of sky-high spending on cloud and related technologies, 2022 is the crunch point for corporate IT and digital leaders. Investments in technology helped facilitate the rapid shift to mass hybrid working and supported businesses to embrace the digital-first models of the new normal. But beyond merely investments to support new working styles, leaders also must ensure their organization continues to innovate.

PagerDuty Named a Leader in the Latest G2 Grid for AIOps Platforms

At PagerDuty, we are committed to championing the customer — it’s a core company value. Our product has to provide great value, we have to provide excellent service, and we need to make it simple to do business with us. The Winter 2022 G2 Grid for AIOps Platforms Relationship Index showcases these values and highlights PagerDuty as a leading player in the AIOps space.

Equitably distribute on-call responsibility and streamline incident response with Round Robin Scheduling

PagerDuty is excited to introduce Round Robin Scheduling. Round Robin Scheduling allows teams to equitably distribute on-call shift responsibilities amongst team members. Automatically assigning new incidents across different users or on-call schedules on an escalation level ensures that teams are resolving incidents as efficiently as possible. And, by balancing the workload across multiple users, there’s less risk of burnout.

Intelligent Swarming vs. Tiered Support: How Customer Service Teams can use PagerDuty to Swarm Critical Issues

Most support organizations today adopt some form of the traditional tiered support model. It is one that is based on a process of escalations and customer handoffs. Under this model, customer issues get escalated through multiple levels of a support hierarchy, with three tiers being a common workflow.

Learn how PagerDuty can help address critical work across all departments

PagerDuty’s Operations Cloud helps organizations with critical work across the entire business, from IT teams to customer service to human resources, marketing, sales, and more. With PagerDuty, organizations can prioritize accurately, respond efficiently, and reduce operational overhead. In this blog post, we’ll share examples of how PagerDuty can be used for critical work in all departments, not just IT, using our new Solution Guides for Business.

Scrum Ceremonies: A Beginner's Guide

A Scrum Ceremony is a type of scrum event or meeting that is intended to help move projects forward in a more timely and efficient manner. These ceremonies occur at key points in the production process, emphasizing organized collaboration and communication between team members to help simplify complex development processes and queues. For example, Daily Scrum is a ceremony held every morning to go over which items have been completed, which are being worked on, and which are coming up.

The Human Side of Being On-call: 5 Lessons for Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Life While Being On-call

Within DevOps, we talk a lot about the on-call process—but what about the human side of being on-call? For example, what are effective ways of managing stress and anxiety during a shift? How can one manage life situations that make being on-call difficult—such as being responsible for watching the kids during an on-call rotation? And how can an empathic team culture help prevent burnout and turnover?

Fairwinds: Kubernetes Guardrails and Governance to Enable Developers and Reduce Risk

Customers of both PagerDuty and Fairwinds Insights can generate and customize PagerDuty incidents for critical issues in their Kubernetes clusters. This capability includes over 100 checks that have been built-in to Fairwinds Insights for things like container vulnerabilities, insecure workload configurations, runtime security events, and resource usage—as well as custom user-defined policies for compliance and internal requirements.