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Incident management tool integration

Picture the scene: a high‑severity alert fires, Slack lights up, and dashboards scream red. You’re juggling Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, and status pages while trying to coordinate fixes. The problem isn’t a lack of tools; it’s that they aren’t talking to each other. This guide explains why incident management tool integration matters, how it cuts response times, and where to start.

Consolidate Cloud Environments at Scale with Tidal

Cloud environment cleanup is often overlooked but it’s one of the biggest blockers to efficient cloud transformation. Have you ever found yourself lost in a labyrinth of environment names? “Dev,” “development,” “dev-test” — sound familiar? What starts as a simple spreadsheet import can quickly spiral into a nightmare of duplicate records and data inconsistencies. One of our customers knows this pain all too well.

How incident.io helps to reduce alert noise

We're often asked: "How does incident.io help reduce alert noise?" And it’s a fair question. It’s typically much easier to add new alerts than to remove existing ones, which means most organizations slow-march into a world where noisy, un-actionable alerts completely overshadow the high-signal ones that indicate a real problem.

Colo is not dead. | Uplink Podcast | Episode 4

Colo is not dead. Forget cloud-only strategies—AI is driving a resurgence in colocation and a rethink of what hybrid infrastructure really means. AI has flipped the script on how we think about digital infrastructure. In this episode, we’re joined by TierPoint SVP Don Schuett to explore how the surge in AI demand has fundamentally reshaped the data center industry—impacting everything from hardware design to real estate strategy.

Simple Talks Podcast | S2 Episode 7 - Louis Flies Solo

In this special solo episode, host Louis Davidson stays ‘full screen’ for the entire show and answers the very questions he asks of others! Where it all started, what tech he loves, the one obvious thing he loves to do outside of working with databases (which has been mentioned before)...it’s all covered here!

GDPR Log Management: A Practical Guide for Engineers

GDPR compliance for logs can be tricky—especially when you're trying to maintain system visibility and protect user data at the same time. For SREs and IT teams, it’s a balancing act between staying on the right side of privacy laws and not losing the context you need to troubleshoot. This guide walks through practical ways to handle personal data in logs, set up retention rules that make sense, and stay compliant without creating unnecessary friction.

Meet the Cortex Founders

What’s it like to build the future at Cortex? In this video, our founders share what makes Cortex a unique place to work—from our builder-first culture to the high-impact problems we’re solving every day. We’re a team that moves fast, supports each other, and is deeply committed to raising the bar for developer experience across the industry. At Cortex, you’ll find a culture that values autonomy, creativity, and a shared drive to push boundaries. We’re building tools that help some of the world’s top engineering teams ship faster and more confidently—and we’re just getting started.

OWASP CI/CD Top 10: Inadequate Flow Control in CI/CD Pipelines

With the recent shake-up around CVE funding and broader questions about long-term support for cybersecurity infrastructure, one thing is clear: controlling what you can is more important than ever. This is abundantly clear in modern software development practices which rely heavily on CI/CD systems, which in turn serve as the primary conduit from a developer’s local environment to production.