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

Major Incident Management with Zenduty, Grafana, Slack and Zendesk

In the current fast-paced world, businesses are seeking methods to increase their efficiency and simplify their processes. But, there are times when teams are unaware of an issue at the initial stage, leading to a bad customer experience. For example, you are a part of the Infrastructure team, where your primary responsibility is to check resources and notify when they reach their maximum capacity. Let's say due to an anomalous traffic load, our resource CPU utilization goes above 90%.

7 Types of Incident Response Tools

Incident response tools are software applications or platforms designed to assist security teams in identifying, managing, and resolving cybersecurity incidents. Incident response is a crucial part of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy, making it possible to detect threats, analyze vulnerabilities, respond to attacks, and recover from security breaches. Incident response tools are vital for safeguarding organizations against evolving cyber threats.

Welcome To xMatters - Ep 2 - Organizing Your Teams

Even the most gifted and powerful people could do with a helping hand now and again. Thankfully, they are not alone in the multiverse! xMatters has made the process of organizing your teams and creating a customized on-call schedule as if by magic. This way, when help is urgently needed, the appropriate on-call individual will quickly join the team to save the day. To learn more about organizing your teams with xMatters, check out our tutorial videos on how to get started.

How Sony Interactive Entertainment drives better IT operations based on alert data

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is a multinational video game and digital entertainment company owned by global conglomerate Sony. SIE primarily operates the PlayStation brand of video game consoles and products.

Insights on Hiring Engineers with Different Tech Stacks

In the world of software engineering, the choice of programming languages, frameworks, and technologies is constantly evolving. As a result, hiring engineers who have experience in different tech stacks has become a common practice for many companies. However, this practice also raises questions and concerns about the potential challenges and advantages of hiring engineers who work in predominantly different stacks.

Learning from incidents is not the goal

Learning from incidents has become something of a hot topic within the software industry, and for good reason. Analyzing mistakes and mishaps can help organizations avoid similar issues in the future, leading to improved operations and increased safety. But too often we treat learning from incidents as the end goal, rather than a means to achieving greater business success. The goal is not for our organisations to learn from incidents: it’s for them to be better, more successful businesses.

Admin Panel - Location Settings - xMatters Support

In xMatters, sites, and region settings represent physical locations like street addresses or geographic coordinates. Every user in the system belongs to a single site and it controls some default settings on their profile page, such as their language and time zone. Let’s take a dive into xMatters location settings.