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

Four Golden Signals: Key Indicators for System Reliability

System reliability is crucial for providing seamless user experiences and enabling effective business operations. The "4 Golden Signals" —latency, traffic, errors, and saturation—offer a comprehensive view of system performance and potential issues. In this blog, we deep dive into system reliability and explore these four key metrics for monitoring system health and ensuring optimal performance.

How To Reduce The Alert Noise For Optimal On-Call Performance

The relentless push in organizations can have unintended consequences, particularly for your On-Call engineers. One threat that can quickly erode their effectiveness is alert noise. When your On-Call engineers are bombarded by constant alerts (– genuine emergencies, false positives or redundant notifications) it creates a state of information overload, forcing them to constantly switch context and struggle to identify the critical issues amidst the din. The result?

Don't take a cookie cutter approach to incident management with Toby Jackson

This week, we have a really fun conversation lined up. For this episode, we chatted with Toby Jackson, Global SRE Team Lead at Future, about why it’s a bad idea to take a cookie-cutter approach to incident management or, put another way, why it’s not a good idea to treat all incidents alike. In our conversation, we discuss what’s wrong with this approach, some situations where this might actually make sense, how psychological safety factors into this conversation, and a whole lot more.

New Features: Call Routing 2.0, Intelligent Alert Grouping, Call Logs, and More

We're excited to share the latest enhancements to the ilert incident management platform! We’d be delighted to receive your feedback on these new features, so feel free to message us at support@ilert.com. Additionally, you can always leave feature requests on our open roadmap.

The Complete Incident Management Tech Stack To Increase Performance, Reduce Cost And Optimize Tool Sprawl

Effective Incident Management is crucial for keeping your IT services reliable and available. Imagine having a tech stack that not only boosts performance but also cuts costs and reduces tool overload—sounds perfect, right? But finding that ideal mix of tools and best practices can feel overwhelming. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

What we can learn from Google's UniSuper incident comms

Earlier this month, an inadvertent misconfiguration in an internal tool used by Google Cloud resulted in the deletion of a user’s GCVE Private Cloud. The user in question? UniSuper Australia — a $125 billion Australian pension fund with over 600,000 users. In this post, Ashley reflects on the communications shared and what we can learn from them.

Credit-Worthy Reliability - Incidentally Reliable with Krishnendu Majumdar

Catch Krishnendu Majumdar (CPTO at Yubi) talk about his journey in the dynamic Indian startup ecosystem, strategies to build for scale from Day 1 and insights into building sustained user trust via exceptional product performance in high governance industries like credit and finance.

From Chaos to Calm: Streamlining Enterprise Ops for Proactive Reliability

Discover how Squadcast revolutionizes incident management for enterprises. Learn how to reduce alert fatigue, automate incident response, and gain valuable insights from past incidents. Our experts will share real-world use cases and demonstrate how Squadcast can streamline your operations, leading to improved reliability and faster resolution times. Key Takeaways.