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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.

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.

Status page best practices

Although some organizations may hesitate to publicly announce when they have an incident — afraid that acknowledging outages will scare customers away — the opposite is often true. When you proactively communicate with your customers, even during bad times, you have the opportunity to not only build trust but also buy grace during the incident.

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.

Our Opsgenie integration is now available

When we detect a problem with your site we can notify you via mail, a slack message, a webhook, or any of our other notifications channels. For most of our users this is enough, but those work in larger teams often need more flexibility. Today, we are launching our Opsgenie integration, a modern incident management platform.

See Global Event Orchestration End-to-End

Global Event Orchestration’s powerful decision engine enriches events, controls their routing, and triggers self-healing actions based on event data. Teams can use this functionality across any or all services within PagerDuty. This feature is a continued investment in Event Orchestration, demonstrating PagerDuty’s commitment to providing customers with best-in-class automation capabilities. Check out this live demo from Principal Product Manager Frank Emery.

Squadcast's Improved Slack (V2) Integration | Better Collaboration & Incident Management | Squadcast

This video will give you an overview of the latest improvements supported by the Squadcast-Slack integration, which we hope will help in better collaboration and Incident Management.