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Incident Management

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

Webinar on 'Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE' | Squadcast

This Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last decade, more so in the last few years. What was traditionally limited to having just an in-house on-call team and an alerting system, has now grown well beyond that to ensure Automation, Collaboration, Transparency, and Retrospection are deeply entrenched in Incident Response.
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Areas to Streamline Incident Management

When a serious incident occurs, time is essential. Streamlining different components of the incident response and management process can help minimize the time it takes to resolve an incident. Proper streamlining also helps reduce downtime, restore functionality, and potentially curtail the overall impact of an incident-not to mention the costs incurred during these events. This article examines several areas of incident management, the potential challenges of manual implementation, and how an automation platform can alleviate these challenges to provide a streamlined incident response process.

How to choose the right Incident Management software?

Software programs known as incident management solutions assist organizations in managing occurrences, tracking and monitoring incident response activity, and evaluating the performance of their incident response teams. They are crucial to any organization’s incident response strategy and can aid teams in coordinating their efforts, getting in touch with key stakeholders, and preserving their work.

6 Must-Have Features of an Alert Notification Software

Alert notification software is an essential tool for IT operations, as it enables teams to quickly respond to critical issues and ensure the smooth running of systems and services. With the increasing complexity of IT environments, it is more important than ever to have a robust alerting system in place. General robustness is essential as such alert notification system will quickly become an essential part of your operation stack.

Incident Management KPIs - what really matters

In the age of Big Data and analytics, companies are increasingly using the power of numbers and data to improve their processes. In the incident management world, this means turning to KPIs, metrics, and other incident monitoring methods to recognize trends and take corrective action. ‍ To manage and improve your incident management processes, you have to keep an eye on KPIs and metrics.

"Avoiding Catastrophic Outages" | DeveloperWeek 2023

In this talk, Andrew Zigler (Developer Advocate at Mattermost) discusses root causes of catastrophic outage, and approaches to prevention using open source technologies you can deploy in less than a day. He'll talk through real-life case studies from manufacturing plants to global media companies to the world's largest banks and other mission-critical technical teams.

How to untangle monitoring noise and leverage observability best practices

Most organizations suffer from some form of alert noise, shares Adam Blau, senior director of product marketing at BigPanda. “Alert noise is only going to increase as organizations support cloud-native applications spanning multiple public and private clouds, including ephemeral deployments and more. It’s not going to get easier for organizations to understand the signal from all those alerts being sent,” Blau said.

Reduce IT costs without increasing incidents and escalations

As technology in business continues to evolve, IT costs can quickly add up. Companies may be looking for ways to reduce IT costs while maintaining a high customer service level. This article will discuss the potential benefits of lowering IT costs without increasing incidents and escalations. We will explore strategies to reduce IT costs, improve customer service, and increase employee productivity.

IT (Information Technology) Alerting Software

IT support engineers rely on many specialized monitoring tools to detect infrastructure, application, and security problems. Once a monitoring tool detects a problem, it alerts must notify support to start incident response. Many complexities arise after the alert is sent. AlertOps offers many alert management features.