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With the news of OpsGenie shutting down and everyone looking for possible alternatives, we wanted to take a moment—not just to acknowledge the end, but to rewind and revisit the journey that brought them here. Over the years, it carved out a meaningful place in a competitive market, and in the workflows of thousands of teams. This is a look back at where it all began, what made OpsGenie different, and the mark it leaves behind.

This in-depth analysis examines PagerDuty’s pricing structure for 2025, going far beyond the advertised rates to uncover the true total cost of ownership. We break down the additional fees, essential add-ons, implementation timelines, and ongoing maintenance costs that most organizations discover only after committing.

Atlassian recently dropped a bombshell: OpsGenie is shutting down. If you’re an OpsGenie user, this news probably hit hard. After investing time setting up your alerts, configuring oncall schedules, and training your team on OpsGenie, you’re now faced with finding and migrating to a new incident management solution. We understand the frustration and uncertainty you’re feeling right now. The reactions on Hacker News show you’re not alone in this challenge: Take a deep breath.

A postmortem template is a structured tool for documenting incidents, understanding their causes, and learning how to prevent them in the future. This article explains the essential elements of an effective postmortem and how ilert can streamline this process, making your incident response more efficient. It also offers a downloadable version of a postmortem template that you can use if you haven't yet utilized an incident management platform in your organization.

At incident.io, we've always focused on empowering your team to manage incidents calmly, confidently, and effectively. Today, we’re introducing a powerful new addition to our suite of AI incident responders — one designed to bring a new layer of strategic oversight to your engineering organization: Agentic CTO.

In March 2025, several major services experienced outages that disrupted businesses and users worldwide. StatusGator provided early detection and real-time updates, helping users stay informed before official announcements. With its Early Warning Signals feature, StatusGator alerted users to potential disruptions even before official status pages reported issues, offering a crucial advantage in mitigating downtime. Here are the top five outages detected by StatusGator in March.

In March 2025, several major EdTech services experienced outages that impacted students, educators, and institutions. StatusGator’s real-time monitoring and Early Warning Signals feature helped users stay ahead of these disruptions, providing alerts before official acknowledgments. Here’s a recap of the top EdTech outages detected in March.

AI and automation have cemented themselves as pillars of enterprise operations. Both have brought measurable benefits to organizations: efficiency gains, streamlined operations, and new revenue opportunities, to name a few. And with new capabilities like agentic AI bursting onto the scene, AI and automation will only become more impactful in the coming years. But accompanying these new capabilities are new complexities, and they’re evolving just as fast as the technologies themselves.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived in the workplace, powering everything from the personalization of tailored experiences, to automation, to predictive analytics, all for the purpose of better decision making. No longer a buzzword tossed around in boardroom brainstorming or futuristic planning sessions, AI is a present-day reality reshaping how businesses operate. Generative AI kicked off the revolution, and its rapid adoption is changing how humans create and work.