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

PagerDuty Pricing Breakdown 2025 (And How To Save 85%)

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.

OpsGenie Shutdown: What You Need to Know and Your Next Steps

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.

Postmortem Template to Optimize Your Incident Response

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.

Introducing Agentic CTO: executive oversight in every incident

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.

Top 6 Reasons Why You Need a Status Page Aggregator

Your business depends on the reliability of the third-party services you use. Monitoring the status pages of these services is the best way of keeping track of their outages and maintenances. Although some status pages let you subscribe to alerts, there is no standard way of doing this. Service providers can change their status page providers, disable subscriptions, or not support the same notification options.

Feature Spotlight - Incident Automations

From managing issues and resources to keeping customers updated, resolving an incident requires a level of multi-tasking that can be overwhelming for even the most efficient of teams. Automating your processes reduces the time needed to diagnose, mitigate, and resolve incidents, and simplifies communication throughout an incident's lifecycle.

Remediate Kubernetes incidents faster using private actions in your apps and workflows

The Datadog Action Catalog provides more than 1,400 actions to help you accelerate remediation across your infrastructure directly within Datadog. With actions, you can use Workflow Automation to configure workflows that automatically address issues as they happen and build custom apps in App Builder that empower anyone in your organization to act when incidents occur.

Incident Response Management: A Category of Its Own

In recent weeks, I’ve spoken with several Opsgenie customers who are evaluating a migration to ilert after Atlassian’s decision to phase out Opsgenie and fold its functionality into other products. Atlassian is giving Opsgenie users “two options: move to Jira Service Management for robust end-to-end incident management, or move to Compass for alerting and on-call management.” This has raised a broader question in our industry: ‍

From Tickets to Action: Ensuring Proactive IT Support with Jira and OnPage

We’re excited to announce the launch of our bi-directional integration between OnPage and Jira! This integration is designed to bridge the gap between ticket creation and incident response, ensuring that IT, DevOps and other tech teams who rely on Jira to manage their incidents can automatically identify and engage the right on-call staff—ensuring critical incidents are addressed in real time without delay.

OpsGenie End of Life? What's next for OpsGenie users.

If you haven’t heard already (which would be shocking considering the numerous posts I’ve seen on Reddit) Opsgenie’s end of life is right around the corner. This means there is no better time for Opsgenie users to explore alerting and on-call management tools outside of the limited alternatives provided by Atlassian. So, I felt now is a better time than any to address the needs of those affected by the dissolution of Opsgenie and reveal why OnPage should be your new platform of choice.