Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

For a fast-paced work environment, effective on-call management is crucial for maintaining seamless operations. Whether you’re in IT or any other industry that requires constant availability, the on-call system ensures that teams can respond to critical incidents efficiently. However, achieving optimal on-call management isn’t just about being available—it’s about collaboration, communication, and ensuring team health.

On December 11, 2024, millions of users around the globe experienced disruptions across Meta’s core platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Reports of connectivity issues and outages began flooding social media and third-party monitoring platforms as users scrambled to understand what was happening. While Meta issued a statement later in the evening attributing the outage to unspecified “technical issues,” the delayed acknowledgment left countless businesses and users in the dark.

At ilert, one of the key tools in our debugging process is the Event Explorer, which provides an extensive overview of incoming events and their processing lifecycle. By reflecting the event process of an alert source, the Event Explorer allows our team to trace event paths, correlate related data, and identify issues quickly.

Are your IT systems underperforming due to incomplete or outdated data? In ITOps, where quick and accurate decision-making is critical, raw data alone can limit efficiency. Data enrichment adds the context needed to turn basic data into a powerful source of actionable insights.

When we launched our fully-featured Microsoft Teams integration in May, our goal was clear: to provide enterprise teams with the robust and comprehensive toolset they need to manage incidents faster and more effectively – right where they work. It’s all part of our commitment to building the leading enterprise incident management solution. Today, we’ve enhanced our Teams integration by adding the ability to automatically create Microsoft Teams group chats directly from your Runbooks.

If you manage applications running on cloud platforms, you likely depend on multiple cloud vendors and services. These could be infrastructure providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. A vulnerability in any of these services could potentially impact your applications and your users. A cloud platform has many moving parts, many of which are dependent on other third-party providers.

In today’s hyperconnected world, APIs are no longer just tools for integrating software—they are the driving force behind modern DevOps and incident management strategies. As organizations prioritize speed, scalability, and resilience, APIs have transformed from being enablers of connectivity to essential components in streamlining workflows, improving collaboration, and accelerating incident resolution.

We are excited to announce a native integration between ilert and Honeybadger.

We're thrilled to announce a native integration with ilert, combining Honeybadger's full-stack application monitoring with ilert's real-time alert routing and on-call management platform. ilert handles alert routing, escalations, and on-call scheduling, ensuring critical issues always reach the right person at the right time.