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

Intro to Grafana Incident

In this video, you’ll learn how Grafana Incident offers a complete incident management process out of the box in Grafana Cloud, so you can save time and focus on what’s important when things go wrong. Grafana Incident is available to all free and paid Grafana Cloud users. If you’re not already using Grafana Cloud — the easiest way to get started with observability — sign up now for a free 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro, with unlimited metrics, logs, traces, and users, long-term retention, and premium team collaboration features.

How to Run a Post-Mortem Meeting: Tips, Tricks & Checklist

Meetings are a necessary evil in any workplace. They can be long, tedious, and often unproductive. But post-mortem (PM) meetings are different. They are one of the most valuable meetings a service-oriented organization can have. Post-mortem meetings are an essential part of any project manager's toolkit. They provide an opportunity to reflect on what went well and what could be improved upon in future projects.

PagerDuty Apps for AWS + Automated Diagnostics Demo

Reduce downtime and customer impact with service ownership while enabling teams to drive continuous improvement and innovation Learn about how you can modernize and optimize your operations with our enterprise-grade set of AWS integrations. Automate incident response with PagerDuty’s Runbook Automation and learn about our new set of AWS plugins and prebuilt jobs that make it easier to get up and running with auto-diagnostics.

Upgrade your shopfloor alerting with Derdack

Over the last couple of months and service releases, we made continuous efforts to enhance Derdacks capabilities to collect, aggregate and alert shopfloor incidents for our Industry customers that primarily use OPC for alerting. In the accompanying projects, we made big improvements to our OPC Integration even added additional features. The OPC integration received a complete overhaul of the configuration and data management systems and can now handle OPC UA Alerts&Conditions.

5 reasons why you shouldn't buy incident.io

Not many companies will tell you why you shouldn’t use their product, but any product that tries to be everything to everyone is doomed to failure. When you build without a specific user in mind, your target becomes the intersection of many viewpoints, and what you build is the lowest common denominator. What usually follows is software that can technically do everything, but feels unfocused, complex, and unpleasant to use. Something everyone is equally unhappy with.

Fast Track series: easily integrate monitoring alert sources

Integrating all of your monitoring alert sources is quite a task. Large enterprises often struggle to aggregate millions of data records from dozens of monitoring, change, and topology tools in real-time. Filtering out the noise and prioritizing the most important alerts are crucial to a team’s success. BigPanda makes it simple to integrate with any monitoring alert sources with Open Integration Hub. Currently, we have more than 50 easy-to-use integrations to choose from.

RIA Vendor Selection Matrix for AIOps 2022

In July, the research firm Research In Action (RIA), published the 2022 edition of their annual Vendor Selection Matrix™. Despite AIOps being a well established technology (Moogsoft has customers who have been reaping the benefits of AIOps for many years) selecting a vendor can still be quite difficult, given the plethora of vendors who quickly re-branded their solutions as AIOps. So a vendor selection guide is a valuable resource.

Honeycomb Announces Major Updates to PagerDuty Integration

Today, we’re announcing major new updates to Honeycomb’s PagerDuty integration. These updates put more of the information you need into PagerDuty notifications and allow for greater configurability. These enhancements are available to all users who leverage Honeycomb Triggers and Burn Alerts to send notifications via PagerDuty.