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Create a dedicated Microsoft Teams channel for an existing alert

With the ilert Microsoft Teams integration, you can create a separate MS Teams channel for a specific alert, allowing quick collaboration. You can bring together your team members in a shared chat to discuss the issue, share findings, and coordinate your response. This feature is also helpful for reviewing incidents and creating postmortems.

New features summer wrap-up: Evolving ChatOps, AI-assisted Incident Comms, and Time-based alert grouping

It is time to sum up the product updates that we introduced during summer 2023. As always, our focus has been on minimizing limitations in the incident response process and accelerating the workflow from acknowledgment to resolution. We invite you to contribute to the ilert roadmap by submitting your feature and improvement ideas here.

Synthetic monitoring as Code with Checkly and ilert

This post will introduce Checkly, the synthetic monitoring solution, and their monitoring as code approach. This guest post was written by Hannes Lenke, the CEO, and co-founder of Checkly. ‍ First, thanks to Birol and the ilert team for the opportunity to introduce Checkly. ilert recently announced discontinuing its uptime monitoring feature and worked with us on an integration to ensure that existing customers could migrate seamlessly. ‍ So, what is monitoring as code and Checkly?

Which Software Stack is best for IT service management?

IT-Incident Management - a hot topic and more important than ever in the digital age. Companies are increasingly relying on technology to maintain their operations, as any downtime can have catastrophic consequences. On average, one minute of downtime costs $9,000. ‍ Therefore, an efficient and especially organization-specific incident management system is essential. However, there are many components and options in incident management, so what software stack should you use? ‍

New Features: Next-Generation Notifications UI, Take-On Call Widget, Alert Templates, Dynamic Policy Routing, Service Groups

This post highlights some of the features and improvements that we have released in the last two months. If you want to submit your own ideas or vote on existing feature requests, you can now use our public roadmap at roadmap.ilert.com.

IT Incidents vs. Alerts

IT incidents are events which lead to a disruption or deviation from the regular operating standards of a computer system or network. They can be caused by various factors, including hardware or software failures, human error, or even deliberate external (cybersecurity) attacks. It begins with short delays, or services cutting out - for example, when a website or server is down, or access to data(bases) takes too long.