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What is Prometheus Alertmanager?

Prometheus Alertmanager is a powerful tool designed to handle various alerts generated by Prometheus. It plays a vital role in the overall monitoring ecosystem, acting as a centralized hub for managing alert notifications. With Prometheus Alertmanager and its robust notification management capabilities, you can efficiently define alert routing and notification policies. This empowers you to take timely actions and mitigate potential issues before they impact your service availability.

G2 Fall Report Positions Squadcast among the leading Incident Management, and IT Alerting Tools

Squadcast established itself as a Momentum Leader and High Performer across different regions in the Incident Management and IT Alerting tool categories. We have solidified our leadership in the Mid Market segment across various regions, this recognition stems from our dedicated customer base.

A Detailed Guide to Setting Up Effective On-Call Rotations

On-Call Schedules are predefined rotations/shifts assigning team members to be available for incident response at specific times. They are essential for ensuring round-the-clock support, swift issue/incident resolution, and continuous service availability. For a robust On-Call system, proper schedules are essential serving as the backbone of reliable Incident Response, and ensuring your team is well-prepared to address technical challenges effectively.

Three Ways to Better Appreciate your SREs and DevOps Engineers

DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers are vitally important to the continued health of your product and business. We all know it’s true, and yet people in these roles often feel underappreciated and undervalued. This sort of work runs into the issue of “when process and infrastructure break, it gets shoved in the spotlight; but when everything works perfectly, no one notices.” ‍

Choosing the Right Career Path in Tech: Software Engineering vs. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

The tech industry is booming, and there are many different career paths. But, two of the most popular and in-demand roles are Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) blends elements of software engineering with IT operations, focusing on reliability. On the other hand, SWE Software Engineering involves designing, developing, testing, and deploying software applications.

Global Event Rulesets: Streamlining Alert Routing Across Services

In the fast-paced world of organizations handling numerous microservices and projects, tackling the challenges that arise can be a daunting task. As many of our customers come with infrastructures that included a large number of microservices we set out to make it easier for them to streamline alert source management. Enter Global Event Rulesets (GER). This feature is designed to redefine the way you manage alerts.

A Journey through the Blameless Resource Library

From the very beginning of Blameless, we had two vital missions. First, to offer a solution to what we saw as a mounting crisis of reliability by offering a comprehensive, easy-to-use, reliability platform. Second, to educate the companies facing this crisis on the fundamentals of incident management, cutting-edge best practices, and the cultural values that sustain learning and growth.