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

PagerDuty Incident Response Demo (Extended)

Enjoy this demo that showcases a day in the life of a team handling an incident with PagerDuty's Automated Incident Response solution. PagerDuty enables teams to orchestrate the right response for every incident. It also helps organizations protect revenue and improve customer experiences by resolving critical incidents faster and preventing future occurrences. Now you can bring major incident best practices to your organization with end-to-end response automation and friction-free postmortems.

RESOLVE '22: How to get multi-cloud done right

Multi-cloud is inevitable. With AIOps, struggling in its complexity doesn’t need to be. Business technology stacks don’t appear out of a vacuum. For the modern cloud-enabled, cloud-dependent company (that is to say, most of them), the look from the inside looks more like an ongoing evolution than a monolithic choice.

The Power of using Enterprise Alerts Remote Actions via Cloudbridge

For over 20 years Derdack has been developing products that meet the challenges of incident management. It is well documented how Enterprise Alert and SIGNL4 not only filter through the noise with advanced alert policies, but also target the right on-call engineer with the use of sophisticated scheduling, anywhere ad-hoc collaboration and 2way communication back to the originating event source.

We've made it even easier to manage your FireHydrant configuration with Terraform

Many of our customers use FireHydrant’s verified Terraform provider to track configuration changes, ensure consistency, and automate repetitive configuration tasks. Back in March we streamlined our Terraform provider support for service catalog configuration. Today we are releasing extensive Terraform provider improvements for configuring runbooks, task lists, service dependencies, incident roles, and more.

Monitor 3rd-party outages in PagerDuty

We’ve integrated IsDown with PagerDuty so you can manage alerts in the same place you manage all your other alerts. The PagerDuty integration is part of our strategy to make it easy to monitor all the business dependencies that companies nowadays have. We live in a world where SaaS rules the world, and companies prefer to buy vs. build. But with that comes the problem of monitoring all these dependencies, which are critical to daily operations.

MTTJ - What is Mean Time to Join (MTTJ)?

MTTJ – The time taken to join a meeting, and delays caused in ensuring right people are available, can be avoided using software automation and tools. This is not an often talked about topic, but am sure everyone is affected directly from this. We discuss this in detail here. What, why and how it can be avoided?

Driving a customer-focused incident response process

Deep into an incident, Slack firing, up to your ears in decisions, not sure where to turn next? It’s easy for external communication with your customers to fall far down the list of priorities in these moments. However, these are the exact situations where comms are vital, and where underestimating their importance can having damaging and lasting effects on your organisation.

SRE: From Theory to Practice | What's difficult about tech debt?

In episode 3 of From Theory to Practice, Blameless’s Matt Davis and Kurt Andersen were joined by Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb.io and Jean Clermont of Flatiron to discuss two words dreaded by every engineer: technical debt. So what is technical debt? Even if you haven’t heard the term, I’m sure you’ve experienced it: parts of your system that are left unfixed or not quite up to par, but no one seems to have the time to work on. ‍

Episode 6: Mooving to... Real release strategies with Jake Laverty

Every product or application needs a release strategy. It’s how you can double check that everything in your deployment is appropriately tested, validated and verified. Having a standardized release strategy in place allows your team to follow a protocol and reduce the number of unknowns they must face in the product life cycle. However, there are a few considerations to make this critical process run smoothly.