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

Incident Priority Matrix: From Chaos to Clarity

IT leaders often find themselves under pressure to support business outcomes while also trying to manage help requests. An incident priority matrix makes the incident management process much more seamless. It helps companies handle priority incidents within reasonable resolution times while ensuring other concerns are met. In this blog post, we delve deep into the concept of the Incident Priority Matrix, its significance, and how it can transform your incident management processes.

Multi-Org takes FireHydrant for enterprise to the next level

Too often, complexity means confusion — and confusion is your worst enemy when it comes to efficient incident response. We recently found that poor incident management practices (like confusion about what to do or how to escalate an incident) can cost companies as much as $18 million a year.

Hospital Discharge Best Practices

Establishing an effective hospital discharge process is a crucial part of a patient’s stay and can significantly impact the success of their recovery. Patients, families, and subsequent care providers require a detailed education on continued treatment, aftercare processes, and required medications, to avoid any complications that may surface during recovery.

How to Ace Your Services with PagerDuty

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Reliably receive a call when an organ donor is matched

Within the broader context of organ transplantation, time is of the essence. Lives hang in the balance, waiting for that life-changing call announcing a matched donor organ. For organ transplant recipients, the waiting game is often a test of patience and resilience. However, with the advent of modern technology, a solution has emerged to alleviate this uncertainty – OnPage.

Streamlining Incident Investigation

Honeycomb Customer Success Manager Josh Levin explains how to troubleshoot production incidents using Honeycomb's telemetry data: metrics, traces, and logs. While these data forms have separate interfaces, you can investigate seamlessly within Honeycomb. Josh highlights the key role of the "retriever" service in data ingestion and querying and demonstrates cross-validating tracing data with metrics to spot anomalies in pod deployments and resource usage, presented in a separate dataset. He also uses effective log filtering and searching for keywords like "update status.".

OnPage-ServiceNow Bi-Directional Integration

Discover how OnPage's incident alert management solution can be seamlessly extended to ServiceNow's ITSM solution to provide a more efficient and streamlined service delivery experience. The two-way integration ensures that high-priority alerts are given top priority and reach the right team member in a timely manner. And, that's not all -- IT teams gain synchronization across audit trails, alert statuses, and notes, eliminating the need for app hopping and providing all the necessary information in one location.