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

Event Orchestration Demo: Reduce Noise & Manage Event Routing with PagerDuty

Say hello to the next generation of event rules and cut down on manual event processing. With Event Orchestration, you can create custom logic with nested rules to enrich, modify, and control routing or trigger automation actions based on event conditions at scale. (This feature is only available to Event Intelligence and Digital Operations plans).

AWS Re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate Your Cloud Migration for Financial Services

Cloud migration and modernization projects for financial services are very complex initiatives with added challenges of visibility and incident response. He’s how we can help accelerate cloud adoption while reducing customer impact and streamlining and automating incident response.

Respond to incidents faster than ever with the New Mobile Incident Details Redesign

We’re working from anywhere, are you? With the PagerDuty mobile app, you’re always just a tap away from all the incident response tools you need. The new mobile Incident Details screen provides you with a more compelling visual experience and easier access to all your favorite features during incident response. Run a play, add a priority or note, post a status update, and more with the new carousel.

Communicating to Users During Incidents

Imagine you're having a regular day at work, opening up your browser, double checking something for a client in that web app your team built for them, when suddenly, you see this screen: You hit refresh a few times, just to be sure. Nope. Still down. What happens next depends on how well your team has planned for incidents like this (some folks call it unplanned downtime).

Improving your team's on-call experience

Your engineers probably dislike going on-call for your services. Some might even dread it. It doesn't have to be this way. With a few changes to how your team runs on-call, and deals with recurring alerts, you might find your team starting to enjoy it (as unimaginable as that sounds). I wrote this article as a follow-up to Getting over on-call anxiety.

Getting over on-call anxiety

You've joined a company, or worked there a little while, and you've just now realised that you'll have to do on-call. You feel like you don't know much about how everything fits together, how are you supposed to fix it at 2am when you get paged? So you're a little nervous. Understandable. Here are a few tips to help you become less nervous.

Get Started with Playbooks Permissions

The goal of Mattermost Playbooks is to help teams consistently orchestrate any and all recurring workflows. A Playbook is a prescribed, repeatable process that a team has agreed on and formalized as a collaborative checklist saved on their Mattermost server. We at Mattermost use Playbooks for incident collaboration, customer onboarding, and product releases, along with many other complex processes.