Progress often accompanies unforeseen challenges and mishaps in organizations. Traditionally, these setbacks resulted in pointing fingers, hindering progress, and creating a negative work atmosphere. However, a "Blameless Postmortems" approach transforms how organizations respond to failure. In this blog, we will delve into the importance of cultivating a blameless postrmortem culture when faced with setbacks.

We are excited to share another feature update with all our valued customers! We have recently gone live with our Key Based Deduplication feature, enabling you to define dedup keys using customizable templates for configured alert sources. With this feature, you can automatically group similar incidents and effectively deduplicate alerts.

Deep diving into the 'Normal accident' theory by Charles Perrow, and what it means for SREs.

Native support for OpenTelemetry metrics in Prometheus.

Part 1 of the series of posts which talk about engineering design decisions to make high cardinality work in time-series databases.

We’ve all seen it: a company experiencing a major incident and going radio silent, leaving their customers to wonder “Are they doing something about this?!”. If you’ve ever been on the inside of something like this, you know the answer is most likely yes, there are people working hard to put out the fire as quickly as possible. But when it comes to incidents, perception is reality for customers.

Status Pages are crucial cogs in your Incident Communication process, they serve as vital channels to keep your stakeholders informed during periods of downtime. Although there are many proficient tools in the market, such as Atlassian Status Page and Status.io, these standalone Status Pages can come with a hefty price tag, with various pricing plans and tiers for both Public and Private Status Pages. Moreover, with Atlassian Cloud’s recent issues, its dependability is in question.

What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus - Difference in architecture, and metrics.