The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.
While service incidents can be wildly dissimilar, they tend to have one thing in common: a need for quick resolution. Response teams need a robust, repeatable process to follow that ensures fast, mistake-free execution, especially for those 4 AM calls. Having a documented checklist saved where the entire team can access and use it at any time could make the difference between quick resolution or compounding the problem.
A critical part of managing modern software development is setting up and running an on-call rotation. But that often involves significant toil, in part because many of the existing tools are cumbersome and not developer-friendly. That’s why we’re excited to announce Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for devs.
At incident.io, we ship fast. We're talking multiple times a day, every day (yes, including Fridays). Once I merge a pull request (PR), my changes rocket their way into production without me lifting a finger. 💅 It's when we tackle larger projects that this becomes a bit more complicated. We recently launched Announcement Rules, which let you configure which channels incident announcements are posted in depending on criteria you define.
The world is moving fast, led by an ever-accelerating IT landscape. In recent years, two distinct types of teams have emerged that assist in driving this business transformation: DevOps/SRE teams that are in charge of driving rapid innovation of products and services, and IT Ops/NOC teams that focus on preventing outages and maintaining the high level of quality, reliability and serviceability that modern, discerning customers expect.
We all know one bad experience can impact a customer’s perception of—and even willingness to deal with—an organization going forward. That’s why so many companies, in virtually every industry, have made investing in customer experience (CX) a top priority, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com. The problem is, for any given organization, there are a number of customer service processes along the entire life span of an interaction that need to be looked at and made great.
