Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

June 2023

Strengthen Your DORA Metrics with PagerDuty

For technical teams, the findings from DORA provide a model for measuring and improving performance. With almost a decade of data gathered from more than 33,000 professionals worldwide, the capabilities and frameworks detailed by the research help teams pinpoint areas for improvement and areas to celebrate. The team at DORA categorizes capabilities into three sections: Technical Capabilities, Process Capabilities and Cultural Capabilities.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 3: LLMs and Incident Response

A software engineer, a data scientist, and a product manager walk into a generative AI project… Using technology that didn’t exist a year ago, they identify a customer pain point they might be able to solve, build on teammates’ experience with building AI features, and test how to feed inputs and constrain outputs into something useful. Hear the full conversation here.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud Product Demo

Check out the PagerDuty Operations Cloud in action. It detects and analyzes event data from across your digital operations, automates infrastructure and workflows, and mobilizes the right team members to minimize the impact of disruptive events on customers, employees, and brand reputation. It will help your teams free up time, reduce operations costs so you can deliver seamless experiences for your customers.

PagerDuty External Status Pages

External Status Pages offer public audiences a unified source of truth about your infrastructure’s health. This feature can be customized to fit your brand’s look and feel, and you can define different views and sets of Business Services to display. Product Manager Jacky Leybman joins the stream to show off how customers can stay informed about ongoing incidents and read status updates, or subscribe to your status page to receive notifications via email.

Top 5 Use Cases for Custom Fields on Incidents

Chasing down critical information in disparate systems of record while trying to resolve an incident can make an already stressful situation even more taxing. Extra clicks, extra logins, copy/paste, socializing that information with other responders–it all wastes time and introduces more room for human error. Now PagerDuty customers can use Custom Fields on Incidents to enrich their incident data.

What is Zero Trust Security and Why Should You Care?

Automation has become a game changer for businesses seeking efficiency and scalability in a rather unclear and volatile macroeconomic landscape. Streamlining processes, improving productivity, and reducing incidence for human error are just a few benefits that automation brings. However, as organizations embrace automation, it’s crucial to ensure modern security measures are in place to protect these new and evolving assets.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 2: Hadijah Creary Demystifies Customer Success vs Customer Service

In this episode, Hadijah Creary breaks down what Customer Service teams are versus Customer Success teams. What do they care about? How can they each get more proactive to improve the overall customer experience? And why is it PagerDuty Customer Service Operations and not Customer Success Operations?

AIOps and Automation: A Conversation Featuring Guest Speaker Carlos Casanova, Forrester Principal Analyst

At the beginning of 2023, I had a great conversation with Carlos Casanova, a Forrester Principal Analyst, in a recent webinar about how AIOps can help drive successful organizational change. According to our conversation, Carlos has divided the AIOps market into two camps: technology-centric (primarily APM/Observability players) and process-centric. PagerDuty is a process-centric solution leveraging multiple technologies.

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After action reports: post-incident investigations

When something unexpected happens within the digital operations remit, software engineers put on their deerstalker hats and wax their fussy little moustaches-metaphorically. It's their time to play detective as they unravel the evidence and create the reports to explain the recent IT incident. But unlike with a hat-wearing Sherlock Holmes or a hirsute Hercule Poirot, cliff-hanger endings are not encouraged in software engineering.

Unplanned, Episode 1: Damon Edwards Rages Against the Ticket Machine

In this, the inaugural episode of “Unplanned”, Dormain Drewitz talks to Damon Edwards about the “capacity conundrum” where everyone is working so hard, but everything takes too long and costs too much. We talk about the “coordination overhead” costs of getting unplanned work done, how generative AI is both adding complexity and offers to accelerate automating as much as you can, and four steps to creating capacity.

Generative AI for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud

When it comes to keeping your business’s lights on, you need to manage and orchestrate your operational activities, prioritize high-impact and urgent work, and maintain day-to-day precision. Trust is paramount during mission-critical, time-sensitive crisis response and the narrow margin for error means there is little room and low acceptance for generative AI hallucinations or false positives.

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud | Strategic Overview

In this two-minute video, learn more about the PagerDuty Operations Cloud - the platform used by modern digital enterprises to automate and accelerate mission-critical operations work. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is essential infrastructure that detects and diagnoses disruptive events, mobilizes the right team members to respond, and automates workflows across your digital operations - so that your business moves forward, faster.