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Incident Management

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

Failure Metrics & KPIs for IT Systems

The game in enterprise IT is this: delivering amazing services to your customers while also reducing costs. That means the time it takes to respond to an incident is critical. Incidents can ruin service delivery and destroy your budget. Certain incidents almost surely deliver a poor customer experience. Response times, you hear? Yep, we’re talking about MTTR, but that’s not all.

How generative AI is increasing cyber risk & what to do to make sure you're ready

Generative AI is all the buzz these days with the popularity of platforms and tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, Scribe, Jasper, and others experiencing exponential growth. This is a technology that has come to the fore with the force of a runaway train that’s bringing us head long into the future at the speed of light. It is transforming everything we do from writing code to making travel plans. And cybersecurity is no exception.

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.