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Postmark + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

Postmark is a simple email delivery system used to send transactional and marketing emails and it ensures getting them delivered to the inbox on time, every time. It also helps in reducing email delivery time considerably. If you use Postmark for your email delivery requirements, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end incident response tool, to route detailed alerts from Postmark to the right users in Squadcast. The below steps will help you set up Postmark and Squadcast integration.

Building a metrics backend (time series db) with PostgreSQL and Rust

At ilert customers are already benefitting from our easy to setup private or public status pages and auto generated SLA uptime graphs for their business services. However, we decided to push the graph topic a bit further with custom metrics. Using ilert metrics customers can showcase additional business data and insights into their services on their status pages.

CircleCI + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy

CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that helps in implementing DevOps practices. It is used to build, test, and deploy projects, by automating pipelines with jobs. If you use CircleCI for implementing your DevOps practices, you can now integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts to the right users in Squadcast. The below steps will help you set up CircleCI and Squadcast integration.

New features + new CI: Metrics, Status Page Widget, PandoraFMS, Automation rules, Alert report export

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

A multi-billion-dollar software giant leverages Exigence to improve incident management collaboration & outcomes

A global leader in SaaS-based and on-premise software solutions that power innovative digital experiences was looking to replace the internal tool that was being used for resolving outages, service degradation, data center connection loss, and other incidents.

Asset Health Rules: The Evolution of IT Asset Monitoring Alerts

Even though IT asset monitoring alerts are a great tool to keep your company’s assets safe, they can sometimes become your worst nightmare. Raise your hand if you never configured them poorly and ended up with tons of irrelevant notifications. Due to their very nature of keeping you in the loop of changes, they can provoke the exact opposite effect since you’ll end up ignoring them. However, they are useful – at least in theory.

What Causes False Positive Alerts?

According to Orca Security’s 2022 Cloud Security Report, 59% of respondents received over 500 alerts a day, with more than 42% of them being false positive alerts. And 62% of them said it has contributed to employee turnover. With numbers like this, it’s no wonder why developers dread the false positive alert. They waste time, energy, and money for everyone in every technology space, whether it is cloud or web services. It’s time to change that.

Grafana alerting

A lot of organizations are using Grafana to visualize information and get notified about events happening within their infrastructure or data. In this article, we will show how to create and configure Grafana Alert rules. To get started, log in to the MetricFire free trial, where you can send metrics and make Grafana dashboards right on our platform.