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What is Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)?

Mean time to repair (MTTR) is a metric used to measure the average time required to diagnose and fix a malfunctioning system or component, ensuring it returns to full operational status. In software development, downtime halts user access and disrupts operations, leading to customer dissatisfaction and financial losses. In manufacturing, it slows production, affecting supply chains and profitability. In healthcare, downtime can compromise patient care and safety.

Our simple incident post-mortem template

Clean, clear, and ready to be customized to suit your needs. Google Docs Having a dedicated incident post-mortem is just as important as having a robust incident response plan. The post-mortem is key to understanding exactly what went wrong, why it happened in the first place, and what you can do to avoid it in the future.

Automation in MSPs: Streamlining Service Delivery and Boosting Profitability

In today’s complex IT environment, clients demand quick, reliable services. To accomplish this, businesses have begun leveraging automation solutions to reduce response times and increase reliability, enabling staff to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business growth. However, many MSPs struggle to build an effective automation strategy and need help, making it challenging to remain competitive in the modern marketplace.

Scaling into the unknown: growing your company when there's no clear roadmap ahead

During a recent episode of ⁠The Debrief⁠, we spoke with Jeff Forde, Architect on the Platform Engineering team at Collectors, about building an incident management program at various stages of growth. In that episode, we called it growth from zero to one, one to two, and two to three. But what happens once you’ve scaled beyond three and answers to question you may have become that much harder to find.

Automation in MSPs: Streamlining Service Delivery and Boosting Profitability

In today’s complex IT environment, clients demand quick, reliable services. To accomplish this, businesses have begun leveraging automation solutions to reduce response times and increase reliability, enabling staff to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business growth. However, many MSPs struggle to build an effective automation strategy and need help, making it challenging to remain competitive in the modern marketplace.

Augmenting MSP Helpdesk Support: 5 Workflows

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are the backbone for many businesses, ensuring that IT systems run smoothly and efficiently. They offer a cost-effective alternative to building an in-house tech team, often allowing companies to leverage cutting edge expertise without the significant expense and responsibility associated with expanding headcount.

Mastering the Sev0

Remind yourself of the worst incident your organization has faced. If you’re lucky it might have been your entire service being offline for a period of time. Less lucky, and perhaps you encountered something affecting the sensitive data your organization is the custodian of. Whilst uncommon, incidents of this severity happen to every organization at some point. This criticality of situation is what many refer to as a Sev0, the most severe of incidents.

Six key capabilities of an AIOps platform

Unplanned downtime can cost large enterprises almost $1.5 million per hour, according to a recent survey by Enterprise Management Associates. AIOps offers a solution. With an effective AIOps platform in place, you can decrease the frequency and cost of outages by 30% and reduce their duration to under an hour. AIOps platforms apply AI and machine learning to complex IT data to enhance and automate IT operations.

Assessing DevOps Performance - DORA Metrics

Feeling the pressure to constantly deliver new features? The struggle is real. But what if there was a way to measure your DevOps performance and transform your team into a release machine? This blog is all about DORA metrics, a data-driven framework to unlock DevOps agility. We'll explore what these metrics tell you, how to implement them, and ultimately, how to use them to turn your team into a release champion.

On-call scheduling to streamline incident response systems in high-velocity teams

Murphy's Law says that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," drawing attention to the inevitabilities of life laced with irony. In IT monitoring, we can tweak it and say, "The most important monitoring alert will always trigger when you're on vacation with spotty internet." Given life's uncertainties, how can IT engineers stay prepared at all times? Especially when we know that all it takes is just one person staying alert and available when things go wrong in IT to tide over outages.