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Runbook Automation: Rundeck Service Ownership Demo

Learn how PagerDuty Runbook Automation enables developers and service owners to equip other engineers, such as operations engineers or other developers with mechanisms to help them support their services. Service owners can allow other team members to help them in supporting their services via automated runbooks that enable others to apply short term fixes–reducing escalation to service owners.

When built-in alerting is not enough

Many ITOM or ITSM tools come with built-in features for alerting and notifications and are able to send at least an email or text notification upon incidents to operations teams. But is this enough reliability to respond to and handle major and critical incidents? Recently, we have been surprised to see more and more monitoring tools listed as alerting tools on review platforms like G2.

Automated Diagnostics for Incident Response Demo

Learn about how you can speed up resolution times with Automated Diagnostics. Automate away as much manual toil as possible to increase team productivity so teams can work more productively. Learn about how teams across the organization can embrace workflows that help to diagnose and remediate incidents.

OnPage Clinical Communication and Collaboration Platform

Modern healthcare teams require a modern solution to streamline clinical communications and medical workflows. In life and death situations, it’s critical that physicians receive immediate alerts and messages to provide patient care promptly. OnPage is the industry’s most trusted clinical communications platform. OnPage is more reliable and secure than traditional pagers. The system enables care teams to easily communicate and achieve maximum patient satisfaction.

Postmortem Pitfalls

Last week, we spent some time talking to Gergely Orosz about our thoughts on what happens when an incident is over, and you're looking back on how things went. If you haven't read it already, grab a coffee, get comfortable, and read Gergely's full post Postmortem Best Practices here. But before you do that, here's some bonus material on some of our points.

A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure

People are more than happy to talk about their successes, but if you ask them about their failures, they can be much more hesitant to share. Failure is a subject that, interestingly enough, is entangled with the emotion of shame. Yet it’s integral to achieving anything novel, and the learnings that come from failure are unparalleled. So, let’s find ways to get more comfortable with failing, and figure out why people fear it.