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Customer Success at an early-stage B2B SaaS company

Based on our newfound data feet, we’ve started consistently tracking the adoption rate of our latest features. As it happens, we’ve been impressed with the results! For example, we were delighted to see that our new tutorial flow was completed end-to-end by 35% of our users (against an industry average of less than a quarter for 6-step product tours like ours). I know, I know: being at such an early stage means it is arguably easier to hit customer needs on the head.

New Native Slack functionality from PagerDuty - Available Now

At PagerDuty we invest a significant part of our time listening to our customers. From what we have learned from those conversations we are adding a new set of features to our Slack Integration. These features will make leveraging PagerDuty from Slack even more seamless and allow Incident Responders to conduct their work without switching context, expediting response times, and ultimately maintaining high customer satisfaction.

The three pillars of great incident response

There’s no one-size-fits-all incident response process. Depending on your organisation’s shape and size, you’ll have different requirements and priorities. But the same three pillars form the core of any good process, whether it’s for the largest e-commerce giant or a scrappy SaaS startup.

It's not ready for production until it has an Operational Readiness Checklist

Maintaining the reliability of complex services just got easier with Operational Readiness Checklists. Service owners and engineering leaders can now evaluate and maintain the production readiness of the services their users rely on every day: spot risks in your service dependencies before they cause incidents, and respond quickly if they do. Before you put a new service into production, readiness checklists help you dot-your-is and cross-your-ts.

12 ways to ace customer communications during a system outage

System outages are the worst nightmares for IT support teams, but they also provide an opportunity to stand out. During a major service outage, customers are often impacted a lot more because they have much less information about what is happening. Some of the biggest outages that affected users all over the world last year include those of Slack, PlayStation, Airbnb, FedEx, and Amazon.

Integration Options with SIGNL4

SIGNL4 integrates with various backend systems like IT monitoring, service management, IoT systems, sensors, etc. to automatically alert users and teams about certain incidents. A list of selected tools along with integration descriptions is available in our integrations section. How can you integrate SIGNL4 with your own tools? In the following we list some options offering different levels of sophistication.

Squadcast Earns a Spot on G2's Top 50 Best Software Awards for IT Management Products 2022

We are thrilled to announce that G2 has recognized Squadcast as a High Performer in the Incident Management space and rated us as one of the Best Software for IT Management Products. Over the last three years, G2 has acknowledged our impact in the IT Incident Management space, which led to us being recognized as a Momentum Leader in the Incident Management and IT Alerting categories. Thanks to our learnings from customer feedback, we have been able to shape our product vision and grow further.

Three Common Incident Response Process Examples

What makes an engineering team? Communication, collaboration, process, order, and common goals. Otherwise, they would just be a bunch of engineers. The same is true of their tools. Connectivity and process turn a bunch of tools into a DevOps toolchain. If you need a DevOp toolchain, you can use it to easily build an incident response process.