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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Is Your Incident Management Tool a Single Point of Failure? The Case for a Multi-Channel Approach

When we’re talking about incidents, we know it’s not a matter of if, but when. It spares no systems: ours, yours or your vendors’. We’ve all seen widely-used products experience incidents, and the domino effect it has on all operations relying on them for seamless functionality. Vendors offering narrow, chat-centered incident management tools might seem attractive at first glance, but they fundamentally misunderstand the complexity of enterprise operations.
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Personal resilience boosts operational resilience

Winter is a grinding time. The temperature, the darkness and the rain all take a toll on people. As a business, it's worth remembering that the human element of IT operations needs looking after just as much as the technology they maintain. Business leaders can't have one without the other.

Operations as Code: Operational Excellence with PagerDuty

The push towards digital transformation and cloud-native infrastructure is massive, yet organizations also need to maintain legacy capabilities. With this pressure comes the need to manage operations with the same rigor and automation we apply to infrastructure, coding, and security. Many organizations have embraced the ideas of everything in a pipeline and all things as code.

Revolutionizing Incident Management with AI: Meet Mo Copilot

Join us for this webinar as we explore how our newly launched Sumo Logic Mo Copilot redefines incident management with the power of AI. We'll examine the limitations of traditional troubleshooting methods and why they fall short in today’s fast-paced environments. Discover how Mo Copilot leverages advanced machine learning and automation to streamline root cause analysis and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). We'll also showcase a live demonstration and highlight how Mo Copilot integrates into your workflow, transforming how you manage operational reliability.

Introducing Audit Events: Ensuring Visibility, Security, and Compliance in FireHydrant

When something goes wrong, the first question is always: what changed? Whether it’s an unexpected change to your on-call schedule, a broken automation, or a modified Runbook that just seems off, understanding the issue starts with knowing who made what change, when it happened, and what exactly changed. But in an organization with many users, keeping track of every action can feel impossible.

Squadcast Joins Forces with SolarWinds: Powering the Future of Reliability and Incident Response

We are thrilled to announce that Squadcast is now a part of SolarWinds, marking a transformative milestone in our journey to redefine reliability and incident management. When we started Squadcast, our singular mission was clear–to help teams achieve greater reliability by transforming incident response into a proactive, automated, and intelligent process. Today, that mission takes a massive leap forward as we join forces with SolarWinds, a global leader in hybrid IT observability.

Welcome Squadcast to SolarWinds: A New Era of Operational Resilience

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Squadcast has officially joined the SolarWinds family. This strategic acquisition signifies a significant milestone in our journey to enhance our capabilities and deliver exceptional value to our customers. Squadcast’s user-loved software perfectly complements our observability and service management offerings, and it offers a wealth of expertise in incident response management. Learn more about our incident response solutions here.

Feature Spotlight - Document Library

Although not all incidents are the same, resolvers often need similar resources or follow standard processes when responding to them. To save valuable time and effort, teams who frequently reference or attach the same files when sending incident notifications can use the xMatters Document Library to store everything in one place. You can easily add and organize files such as screenshots, maps, or response plans and attach them to incidents from within the library or directly on the incident console. For sensitive documents, set permissions so only certain roles can access, modify, or delete them.

Why engineering teams are moving from PagerDuty to incident.io On-Call

Recently, we hosted a webinar on migrating from PagerDuty, where we explored why so many engineering teams are rethinking their on-call tools. This blog post is based on that conversation, diving into the frustrations teams face with PagerDuty and how incident.io On-Call offers a better way forward.

From Beeps to Breakthroughs: How Mobile Apps are Taking Over Pagers in Healthcare

In recent years, the healthcare industry has been facing a pivotal shift on the communication front, with smartphones outpacing pagers as the tool of choice. So, I want to highlight how this shift came to be and why legacy pager systems fall short in the era of real-time communication and collaboration. From patient outcomes to streamlining workflows, I will uncover how HIPAA-compliant mobile technology is transforming the way doctors, staff, and patients communicate.