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

What Is IT Mapping and How Can it Prevent the Next Production Incident?

IT infrastructure mapping is the process of creating a visual topology of a network infrastructure. This mapping process helps understand the geographic and interactive layout of a network, which applications depend on. Using infrastructure mapping for troubleshooting, you can quickly understand the relationship between application issues and hardware issues.

Create Better UX with Incident Response and Service Intelligence

Incidents that impact user experience are some of the most common challenges that IT, security, and operations teams must face. Users have high expectations for application uptime, and organizations are responsible for ensuring applications are available for them. From application performance to user interface design, many factors can affect a customer’s experience—and resulting confidence—in your product’s capabilities.

Say Goodbye to the 'Executive Swoop and Poop' with Status Update Notification Templates

Incidents are unpredictable, but how you share updates with stakeholders doesn’t have to be. Status Update Notifications Templates help teams streamline communication with internal stakeholders during a major incident. We are excited to announce that this feature has added new capabilities.

DataScan transforms incident response & business continuity tests

With more than $80 billion of loan collateral in its systems, DataScan is an industry leader in providing solutions for wholesale asset financing and inventory risk management. The company’s InfoSec leadership understood that they needed to take a whole new approach to incident response and to advance its security maturity. Having multiple tools for managing incidents and conducting business was translating into inefficiencies, prolonged resolutions, and stress.

5 Exciting Predictions for SRE in 2023

SRE is a field defined by its constant evolution: from Google’s in-house secret recipe, to the hottest new practice for the biggest enterprise orgs, to a diverse and holistic mentality practiced by orgs of all sizes. Earlier this year, we co-sponsored the Catchpoint State of SRE survey, where we took the temperature of SRE where it was. Now, as we did in 2021 and 2020, we’ll turn to the future to speculate on what 2023 will bring for SRE. ‍
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Using AIOps for Better Adaptive Incident Management

An effective incident management strategy is crucial for any business, especially those offering consumer-facing digital services. This is because when incidents occur, they may be easily detected by your users, impact your reputation, and ultimately affect your bottom line. So, to minimize the reach and severity of incidents, your response needs to be swift and effective. One way to ensure your approach meets these requirements is to implement AIOps.

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Runbook Automation as a Baseline for Controllability and Observability

Some of the highest priorities for engineers - from NOC Engineers, DevOps & Site Reliability Engineers - are the automation and optimization of their production environments. Many companies today face tough challenges with their Network Operations Centers (NOCs) or production environments. These challenges fall into the hands of engineering teams.

ITIL vs. ITSM - What's the difference?

Companies depend on IT services to support their business operations, and to meet the demands of their customers. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) are frameworks to help organizations manage their IT services. While these two do have elements in common, they also have important differences. ITIL is a set of best practices for IT service management which emphasizes the alignment of IT with the needs of the business.

How we approach integrations at incident.io

If you pick a random SaaS company out of a jar and go to their website, chance are they integrate with another tool. Typically, the end goal of integrations is to meet users in the middle by working with other tools they’re already using on a day-to-day. Put another way, integrations are a strategic business decision. But the question remains: why don’t companies just build a tool with similar functionality in order to make the product stickier?