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Scaling Site Reliability Engineering Teams the Right Way

Most SRE teams eventually reach a point in their existence where they appear unable to meet all the demands placed upon them. This is when these teams may need to scale. However, it's important to understand that increasing team capacity is not the same as increasing the number of people on the team. Let's unpack what scaling a team is all about, what are the indicators, what are steps you can take, and how you know if you're done.

Install Prometheus on Kubernetes: Tutorial & Examples

As one of the most popular open-source Kubernetes monitoring solutions, Prometheus leverages a multidimensional data model of time-stamped metric data and labels. The platform uses a pull-based architecture to collect metrics from various targets. It stores the metrics in a time-series database and provides the powerful PromQL query language for efficient analysis and data visualization.

Incident Response Guide

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a critical discipline that focuses on ensuring the continuous availability and performance of modern systems and applications. One of the most vital aspects of SRE is incident response, a structured process for identifying, assessing, and resolving system incidents that can lead to downtime, revenue loss, and brand reputation damage.

Squadcast + HaloPSA Integration: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response & Alerting

HaloPSA is a modern and intuitive all-in-one professional services automation (PSA) solution, designed for service providers. HaloPSA’s cloud platform helps you manage your entire business, modernize customer experience and automate your service. If you use HaloPSA for PSA requirements, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end Incident Response and Reliability Workflow platform, to route detailed alerts from HaloPSA to the right users in Squadcast.

The Guide to SRE Principles

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service. In other words, SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems. The main purpose of SRE is to encourage the deployment and proper maintenance of large-scale systems.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Kubernetes (K8s) is a powerful tool for container orchestration, but it presents unique challenges when it comes to monitoring and incident response. Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, along with right incident management, and suppression capabilities. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of integrating Squadcast with Komodor, two powerful tools that can help you overcome these challenges.

Announcing our improved Slack integration

Slack is one of the most widely used messaging Apps, providing collaboration and chat solutions to businesses. We at Squadcast understand that most of your work happens over Slack. Hence, we have made improvements to our Slack integration capabilities by introducing a bunch of UI and functional improvements. This blog will give you an overview of the latest improvements supported by this integration, which we hope will help in better collaboration and Incident Management.
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The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE

Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades. Traditionally having been limited to just an on-call team and an alerting system, today it has evolved to include automated Incident Response combined with a complex set of SRE workflows.

Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy

Auvik is a cloud-based network management software that gives you instant insight into the networks you manage and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. If you use Auvik for network management, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end incident response tool, to route detailed alerts from Auvik to the right users in Squadcast. This blog is a step-by-step guide that will help you set up Squadcast-Auvik Integration.
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Reducing Security Incidents: Implementing Docker Image Security Scanner

Are you utilizing Docker to deploy your applications? If so, you're not alone. The use of Docker has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years. While it offers numerous benefits, it also introduces new security risks that need to be addressed. But, why is reducing security incidents so important? Simple - the cost of a security breach can be devastating. From lost customer trust to financial losses, the consequences of a security incident can be severe. That's why it's crucial to take steps to prevent them from occurring in the first place. Enter Docker image security scanners.