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

xMatters Xenon Release

Blast off into a new era of incident resolution! Your teams may not have to choose between ground tanks or flying planes like they do in the arcade game, but with our Xenon release, resolvers will be able to quickly switch between strategies to ensure they’re always working as effectively as possible. So, let’s see what’s packed in this mission’s inventory.

How to unlock $160.000 in annual cost savings - by using automated alert notifications

In today’s fast-paced world, time is money. The faster we can resolve one client’s issue, the quicker we can move on to the next, boosting client satisfaction and maximizing operational efficiency. However, the journey from identifying a problem to resolving it is often prone to delays and human errors. That’s why having an efficient, reliable and fast alert notification process is crucial for driving customer satisfaction and ensuring cost savings.

How to Save $160,000 Per Year - With Automated Alerting

In today’s fast-paced world, time is money. The faster we can resolve one client’s issue, the quicker we can move on to the next, boosting client satisfaction and maximizing operational efficiency. However, the journey from identifying a problem to resolving it is often prone to delays and human errors. That’s why having an efficient, reliable and fast alert notification process is crucial for driving customer satisfaction and ensuring cost savings.

The Rising Role of Slack in Incident Management

Why is Slack becoming so popular in incident management? Slack is one of the most popular communication tools used in companies. If you're part of a remote team, your team is probably on Slack or something similar like MS Teams. Although IM tools lack the communication nuances that are taken for granted in face to face interactions, they provide many other advantages.

AIOps monitoring: Definition, uses, and features

AIOps monitoring is a proactive process that uses AI to anticipate and identify IT infrastructure issues. Going beyond traditional troubleshooting, it enables your systems to detect anomalies in advance to prevent potential disruptions. AIOps uses advanced technology like AI and machine learning to simplify IT operations. AIOps monitoring collects and analyzes large data sets from diverse sources, such as logs, metrics, and events.

The Incident Dilemma: Choosing Between Reactive and Proactive Incident Response

As the IT landscape evolves, businesses face increasingly complex challenges related to system availability, data integrity, and customer satisfaction. One of the most pressing dilemmas is how to manage incidents effectively—deciding between reactive and proactive incident response approaches. Both methodologies have their own merits and pitfalls, but the decision can significantly influence how efficiently an organization handles IT disruptions and maintains operational continuity.

The 2024 Guide to Open Source Status Page Providers

Maintaining transparent communication about service availability is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Status pages are an important part of your communication strategy during times of outages and maintenance events. You can choose to go with a fully managed status page provider, or host an open-source one yourself. Open source status page providers offer a cost-effective and customizable solution. However, then can come with their own drawbacks.

Demo Roundups! Scaled Service Ownership

Are your teams grappling with tool sprawl, fragmented incident management processes, and rising operational complexity? Join us for an in-depth demo of PagerDuty Operations Cloud, where we'll show you how to overcome these challenges through Scaled Service Ownership. Level up your digital operations expertise with PagerDuty Demo Roundups — a series of live, interactive webinars where you can deepen your knowledge in the Operations Cloud and see how PagerDuty can work for you.

What are SLOs/SLIs/SLAs?

You’ve likely noticed how some pizza places promise delivery in 30 minutes, or they’ll give you your money back. But what are they really promising? They’re setting a clear performance goal and backing it up with confidence. How do they measure their performance? They track how long each delivery takes. And why do they make this promise? Because fast service is key to keeping their business thriving.