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

Differences between Site Reliability Engineer Vs. Software Engineer Vs. Cloud Engineer Vs. DevOps Engineer

The evolution of Software Engineering over the last decade has lead to the emergence of numerous job roles. So how different is a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer and a Cloud Engineer from each other? In this blog, we drill down and compare the differences between these roles and their functions.

Customer Service Ops & PagerDuty Zendesk Integration v3 Full Case Ownership Use Case

PagerDuty's Zendesk Integration enhances communication between engineering and support teams by providing visibility to high-impact incidents via the PagerDuty Status Dashboard that is integrated into the Zendesk interface. Automate workflows for a fast-paced support team and provide the right level of information so they can interact knowledgeably with their customers while also reducing time and effort.

PD, Salesforce Service Cloud, Slack: Proactive Case Escalation & Slack-First Intelligent Swarming

Learn about and see how PagerDuty, Salesforce Service Cloud, and Slack empower collaboration across your organization to accelerate time to resolution. Proactively improve customer satisfaction in real time and break down silos to connect customer service teams with engineering teams to address incidents quickly when seconds matter. Enjoy greater control when resolving issues and anticipating customers' needs through an incident command console that gives customer service agents and stakeholders instant updates on critical, customer-impacting issues.

Five steps to better customer communication

When you’re deep into an incident and there’s alerts firing, decisions to be made, and people to escalate to, it’s easy for outward communication with your customers to fall off the priority list. In many regards this makes sense; it seems natural to put all of your focus and energy into minimising the impact and getting things back on track as soon as possible.

What's New: Extending our Datadog Capabilities With New PagerDuty Widgets

In the last two years, we have seen the rise of remote and hybrid work, and with that, a proliferation of tools and apps needed to support critical communication and collaboration. Finding that app-life balance has become increasingly complex, so simplifying “how” we work is key for every organization.

Why ChatOps & Incident Management are the Perfect Pair

ChatOps has become an integral part of software development and IT operations, as teams rely on automated notifications to take the place of manual alerts. In the past, if there was an alert, someone would need to manually find that notification. Then, they would have contact team members to notify them one by one so they could start working on a resolution. In this complex network of communications, it was easy to lose information, duplicate work, and simply waste time coordinating the team.

Service Profile: Activity Tab Updates

PagerDuty's new service profile enhancements allow you to better command and control incidents directly from the Service Profile. Now you can perform bulk actions on incidents like acknowledge or resolve, search by incident ID, add and view change integrations, browse resolved incidents, view related escalation policies from the service profile header, and more.

Next Generation Slack Migration Tool and Stakeholder Updates Demo

Learn more about PagerDuty's Collaboration Applications that help you streamline incident remediation. Enjoy these demos of our latest updates to our PagerDuty Slack and Microsoft Teams Applications including the Webhook Migration Tool, Stakeholder Updates, and Resolution Notes.