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

Four key takeaways from our recent webinar: BigPanda picks up where Netcool left off

For years, Netcool has been omnipresent in many IT Operations organizations. That, combined with the sheer utility it once brought to the table, sometimes gave it a special sort of nostalgic reverence in IT Operations circles. But with all due respect to Netcool, there’s also little doubt the platform’s real-world utility has waned in the era of cloud and hybrid ops.

Introducing Grafana OnCall OSS, on-call management for the open source community

Last November, we announced the launch of Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool that helps reduce toil through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for developers. Born out of Grafana Labs' acquisition of Amixr Inc., Grafana OnCall began as a cloud-only solution that became generally available to all Grafana Cloud users, on both paid and free plans, in February.

Squadcast Product Demo | Incident Management | On-call | SRE | Status Page | SLO Tracker | Runbooks

This video explains why Squadcast is a feature-rich solution for SRE, DevOps, and Engineering teams in general. With the ability to help teams quickly mobilize response teams during critical incidents, easily manage on-call schedules, and track SLOs for better SRE, Squadcast is a multi-purpose platform with numerous capabilities. This short video covers everything the product is capable of.

Setting up Route 53 Health Checks

We live in an age where the internet and digital data drive modern day markets, which results in huge amounts of data being generated and consumed. Hence, it has become very important for online platforms to manage this traffic and serve their customers more efficiently. In this blog we will explore the Amazon Route 53 service and see how it addresses domain name system routing and health check problems.

Crossing "The Last Mile" with an Incident Response System

Delivering dependable and high-performing IT services in 2022 requires coordination and collaboration across different workflows, areas of expertise, and even time zones. Whether serving in-house colleagues or external clients, there is immense pressure on IT management to create seamless experiences 24/7/365. Seconds matter when critical systems break down, and slow incident resolution can have costly ramifications on customer experience and employee productivity.

Driving Effective Communication in Nursing

Effective communication in nursing is central to providing top-quality patient care. Nurses communicate with patients to understand their health issues, and they provide them with the care and compassion needed for recovery. Accomplishing effective communication with patients directly impacts patient health outcomes, and it has far-fetched implications when carried out ineffectively. As such, effective communication in nursing drives patient-centered care.

3 ways to improve your incident management posture today

Too many of us are still playing whack-a-mole when it comes to incidents: an incident is declared, the on-call engineer is paged, the incident is resolved and then forgotten — until next time. It’s time to start thinking in terms of proactive incident management, not just reactive incident response.

Summit Recap: How to adapt to a "Digital Everything" World

Every interaction with our customers, partners, and employees is special – but this year’s PagerDuty Summit went far beyond my wildest dreams. Together we committed to helping you learn and grow in how you manage business critical operations – in other words, getting you ready for anything in a world of Digital Everything.