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From BigQuery to ClickHouse: How we made our analytics 5× faster

‍For years, ilert has given our customers extensive analytics across their alerts, notifications, and on-call activity, a comprehensive overview of how their teams and services respond to incidents. These capabilities were backed by a separate analytical database running on Google BigQuery. It held the numbers behind every reporting dashboard in ilert, and for a long stretch it was perfectly fine. Then three problems grew too big to ignore.

We rebuilt Spike app for Slack

The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.

Slack overview video

The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.

AT&T Email-to-Text Replacement: Best Alternatives for Critical Alerts

AT&T is permanently shutting down its email-to-text and text-to-email gateway, which means alerts sent to @txt.att.net or @mms.att.net no longer reach phones. For IT teams, MSPs, facilities teams, building management, utilities and incident response teams in general, this creates a serious gap. Critical alerts from monitoring tools, ITSM platforms, building systems, IoT devices, and other operational systems still need to reach the right person quickly, especially after hours.

5 AT&T Email-to-Text Alternatives to Improve MTTR in 2026

On June 17, 2025, AT&T permanently shut down its email-to-text and text-to-email gateway. Emails sent to @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net stopped reaching phones, and any automated workflow that relied on that address went dark overnight (AT&T support) . For IT Ops, MSPs, facilities and energy ops and incident response teams, this was not a minor inconvenience.

How Zendesk ditched 15 years of patchwork tooling, in 10 weeks

Zendesk replaced 15 years of homegrown incident tooling and PagerDuty by migrating 1,200 engineers across 150 teams onto incident.io in just 10 weeks, cutting mean time to triage by 32%, saving $500k+ in year one, and eliminating 800+ hours of annual toil, with zero incidents on go-live day. Tom Monaghan (VP of Engineering Productivity & Product Reliability) and Anna Roussanova (Engineering Manager) share how they pulled it off and what's next as Zendesk helps build Investigations, our AI agent that starts digging into incidents the moment an alert fires.

Enhanced Slack Experience

PagerDuty’s slack experience is evolving to help your teams organize better and resolve incidents faster. Use Triage Channels to collect telemetry and updates from your systems. Create dedicated Incident Channels for coordination and resolution. Give stakeholders the updates they need in Announcements Channels. Everyone in your organization can get the information they need easily.

ilert introduces dedicated incident management

Not all alerts are created equal. Some are resolved quickly by the on-call engineer. Others signal something serious enough to affect your business and require your whole team to coordinate. That is why we redesigned incidents as a dedicated coordination workspace for the alerts that have the most business impact.‍ Until now, incidents in ilert were used to communicate status updates to customers and stakeholders. Creating one meant publishing to your status page. We have separated the two.

StepbyStep Guide to Automating Alert Management for IT Ops

Your monitoring stack never sleeps. Datadog fires a spike, ServiceNow spins up a ticket, your RMM flags a failed backup, and every one of those signals competes for attention across email, dashboards, and chat channels. For IT Ops teams running on-call rotations, the volume itself becomes the problem. Alert fatigue sets in, critical notifications blend into the noise, and the one incident that matters at 3 a.m. gets buried under a hundred that don’t. The cost is real.

Introducing the BigPanda AI Incident Assistant

AI incident assistant from BigPanda gives L2, L3, and SRE teams instant answers to resolve incidents faster without manual triage or tool-switching. IT teams lose critical minutes during incidents because context is scattered across Slack threads, bridge calls, monitoring tools, and historical tickets. The BigPanda AI Incident Assistant fixes that by surfacing relevant knowledge exactly when and where responders need it. It gives responders evidence-based resolution paths drawn from historical incidents and live system data, without leaving your workflows.