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Downtime: Understanding and Minimizing Outages

Downtime isn’t just about systems going offline. It’s about how well your business can adapt and keep moving forward. Whether it’s a minor glitch or a large-scale outage, it affects revenue, productivity, and the trust your customers place in your services. For instance, in July 2024, CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform faced an outage that cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion. Businesses that had proactive strategies recovered faster, minimizing the damage.

Top 5 IT outages detected by StatusGator

StatusGator is the world’s best status page aggregator: We aggregate the status of thousands of cloud services and hosted applications from their official status pages. But everyone knows official status pages are often behind and in those critical moments before the status page is updated, you might be thinking “Is it just me? Or is it really down?” StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals solves that by alerting you before providers even acknowledge the incident.

G2: Squadcast Leads in Incident Management and Secures Key Wins Across IT Alerting

We’re thrilled to share that Squadcast has been recognized as a Leader for the second time in the Incident Management Category. This win celebrates our pioneering role in Unified Incident Management, where we bring together On-Call Management, Incident Response, Workflow Automation, AI/ML-powered Noise Reduction, and SLO tracking—all in one platform.

Best Practices for Choosing a Status Page Provider

Downtime is inevitable but what sets successful businesses apart is how they handle it. A key part of incident management is incident communication with both internal and external stakeholders. A status page is a crucial tool for maintaining clear communication with users during outages or service interruptions. There are numerous status page providers available with different features. This article will guide you through best practices for selecting a provider that suits your needs.

Mastering regulatory compliance with incident.io

The origin of incident.io goes back to our days building Monzo, a UK-based bank, where Stephen, Pete, and I first crossed paths. As a bank, compliance with numerous regulations was, unsurprisingly, a top priority. When it came to incident management—something we were very involved in—this meant that every aspect of reporting, policy adherence, and root cause analysis (or "contributing factors," as we called it) had to be managed consistently and meticulously.

Update October 2024 - AI-based summary of alarm details and comprehensive audit logs

Our October update brings you AI-based summaries of alarm details. This makes complex or technical content much easier to understand in a matter of seconds. In addition, there is now also a comprehensive audit log, which always logs changes made to the system in a comprehensible manner. As always, you can find all the details in this blog article.

10 Signs Your Organization Needs an Incident Management Tool

In the world where digital infrastructure forms the backbone of operations, incidents—disruptions to service, system downtime, security breaches, or technical failures—are inevitable. For any organization that depends on technology, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to these incidents can mean the difference between a minor hiccup and a business catastrophe.

New Features: Dashboard, Audience-specific Status Pages, Alert Grouping Metrics, and much more

In this quarterly product update, you’ll discover how to customize ilert dashboards to fit your team’s needs, find advanced filters for building complex alert actions, and reduce costs as an MSP using ilert status pages.

What is a SEV1 incident? Understanding critical impact and how to respond

In the world of incident management, a SEV1 incident is something of lore: you’ve either heard the tales of the critical outages that result in widespread disruption and chaos, or you’ve lived through one (and lived to tell the tale). SEV1 incidents are a game-changer. When one hits—think major outages or critical failures—it can seriously impact a business, leading to lost revenue, unhappy customers, and a whole lot of chaos.