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Transparency in Incident Response

When your production systems are hit with a critical issue, you can trust your DevOps team, your Sysadmins or your SREs to get the system back on track. This is a no brainer. And in turn, these folks need to be able to trust the rest of the team to let them do their jobs, be it engineering, customer support or product management. But where does this trust come from? It comes from understanding - the more you understand, the more you can trust.

Five Ways How OnPage Reduces Physician Burnout

Physicians surveyed listed administrative tasks as a key cause of frustration and physician burnout. Accordingly, this results in workplace issues including, delays in communication, mishaps in surgery and monitoring failures. Fortunately, OnPage curated its HIPAA-compliant, clinical communications solution to help reduce physician burnout and improve care team collaboration, preventing dire consequences in the process.

Best practices for managing alerts with Slack and Opsgenie

When Opsgenie and Slack team up, incident management is smoother and more intuitive. With this powerful integration, users are enabled to rapidly respond to and resolve alerts directly from Slack, using buttons or /genie commands to mute notifications, get alert details, view on-call schedules, and much more. Here are some best practices to help teams avoid alert fatigue but always stay informed.

Tips for Modern NOCs - Alleviating Incident Routing Bottlenecks

Critical and sev1 incidents are always a priority, but what about those dozens and often hundreds of lower priority ones that often sit in a queue waiting for a first response engineer to get to them? Do you find that no matter how much effort your team puts into minimizing the number of queued incidents, their number always seems to grow? If this sounds familiar – this blog is for you.