As an SRE, you constantly juggle proactive tasks to improve reliability and scalability with reactive firefighting when issues arise—often leaving little time to address the root causes. This is not unlike the firefighters of Ancient Rome, the Vigiles, who were tasked with not only responding to fires but also preventing them. Established in 6 AD under Emperor Augustus, the Vigiles patrolled the streets of Rome, looking for potential fire hazards.

Organizations across the globe are seeing rapid growth in the technologies they use every day. And while the healthcare industry has always been slow to adopt, they are quickly starting to benefit from the role new technologies play in enhancing patient care and operational efficiency. However, one major setback for healthcare SMBs when investing in advanced technology is working out how they are going to keep up with cybersecurity, performance, and management of these IT solutions.

IT incident management focuses on quickly identifying and resolving IT issues to restore normal service operations. Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) of incident response is vital in minimizing service disruptions affecting customers and users. With so much data and many things to track, it’s difficult to identify which metrics and KPIs are right to track. What are the right incident response metrics to use to drive meaningful improvements?

On July 19th, a widespread technical failure crippled operations across industries, resulting in lost revenue, wasted operating costs, and damaged customer trust. For businesses that had built trust by providing reliable and resilient services, this had both an immediate and a lasting impact.

Global outages and disruptions have become an inevitable reality for the modern enterprise. As digital dependencies deepen, organizations must effectively manage disruptions or risk damage to their customer experience, brand reputation, and bottom line. Today, we’re thrilled to unveil the latest innovations for the PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) industry is experiencing rapid growth and transformation, driven by advancements in connectivity, data analytics, and automation technologies. The number of connected devices and sensors is constantly growing and is expected to be around 18.8 billion by the end of 2024. More and more manufacturers rely on automation every day. ‍

Are incident reviews about learning or tracking actions? This question has sparked recent debate in incident management circles, including in my recent panel at SEV0 and in Lorin Hochstein’s post. Should the goal of an incident review be learning, or should it focus on tracking actionable improvements? When is the right time to discuss actions, and are they picked up just to make us feel better? From my experience, learning from incidents and identifying actions are inseparable.

Effective incident alerting is crucial for businesses to maintain smooth operations and customer satisfaction. Incidents often generate multiple alerts, each requiring timely and transparent handling to ensure a swift resolution. Ensuring transparency throughout the incident alert process can be challenging. This is where SIGNL4 steps in, offering a comprehensive solution that enhances transparency at every step of incident alert handling.

Staying on top of your third-party Cloud and SaaS service outages is crucial to maintain the reliability of your own applications. Like many modern teams, Slack might be your communication tool of choice. You can keep up with such incidents by pushing these events to a Slack channel. There are different ways of pushing incident events to Slack. In this article we will explore how to integrate IncidentHub incident lifecycle events using an incoming webhook.