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Optimizing Incident Management: Effective Stakeholder Communication with Squadcast

Jul 29, 2024 By Spandan Pal In Squadcast
When a critical system goes down, every minute counts. Amid the chaos, it's easy to overlook a crucial aspect of Incident Management: keeping stakeholders informed. However, neglecting stakeholder communication can have disastrous consequences, including misinformation, delayed decisions, and frustration. Effective stakeholder communication is essential for ensuring a coordinated, efficient, and transparent response to incidents.
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Incident.io

Where does the time go after you resolve an incident?

Jul 29, 2024 By Eryn Carman In Incident.io
We were curious: once an incident is over, how long does it take companies to document, review, create learnings, finish clean-up items, and complete any other follow-up action items? We work with a wide variety of companies, from small start-ups to Enterprises with thousands of engineers. But we wanted to know: where is their time spent after they resolve an incident? Here’s what we found!
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statusgator

25 Best Incident Management Software and Communication Platforms 2024

Jul 29, 2024 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
In 2024, only 45% of companies have an incident response plan in place. If your organization is among the 55% without one, it’s crucial to change that. Service outages are inevitable. Cyberattacks and information security threats are more prevalent than ever. So having the right incident management software can be a game-changer for your organization, helping you respond swiftly and effectively when issues arise. The challenge, however, lies in selecting the right incident management solution.
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pagerduty

Incidents are lessons, not failures

Jul 26, 2024 By Eduardo Crespo, VP of EMEA In PagerDuty
Delivering digital operations excellence - DevOps, incident management, and keeping organisations running - is a constant challenge. As customer digital expectations rise, so do the complexities of the tech stack and cloud services integrations. But to insist on 100% uptime and rush through incident management without taking learnings into account creates a poor culture that can damage the ability of the DevOps team. This is not how a business creates resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams.
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ilert

Leveraging AI for Efficient On-call Scheduling

Jul 26, 2024 By Sirine Karray In iLert
Regardless of industry specifications, creating and maintaining a highly functional incident management process is crucial for organizations of all sizes. The various potential applications of Generative AI in this process can significantly enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of incident detection, analysis, and resolution. GenAI can be utilized across all stages of the incident management process, including preparation, response, communication, and learning.
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Incident.io

How our data team handles incidents

Jul 26, 2024 By Navo Das In Incident.io
Historically, data teams have not been closely involved in the incident management process (at least, not in the traditional “get woken up at 2AM by a SEV0” sense). But with a growing involvement of data (and therefore data teams) in core business processes, decision making, and user-facing products, data-related incidents are increasingly common, and more important than ever.
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zenduty

[New] Schedule Overrides is now live for every team member!

Jul 26, 2024 By Vishwa Krishnakumar In Zenduty
We are excited to announce a significant enhancement to our scheduling feature based on your valuable feedback! At Zenduty, we understand the importance of flexibility and efficiency in managing on-call schedules and ensuring seamless incident response. Previously, only team managers had the capability to edit schedules and add overrides. This meant that non-manager team members had to reach out to their managers to request override coverage, potentially delaying critical adjustments.
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bigpanda

Network topology: Definition and role in observability

Jul 25, 2024 By BigPanda In BigPanda
Network topology describes how a network‘s nodes, connections, and devices physically arrange and interconnect, as well as how they communicate. The arrangement or configuration of a network’s components plays a crucial role in ensuring smooth ITOps with minimum downtime. Any issues in the network can disrupt operations, leading to potentially dire consequences. To prevent this, you need to understand your network functionality and structure.
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pagerly

Effective Slack on-call protocols for engineers

Jul 25, 2024 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Talks about being on call are usually met with complaints. Here's how to alter the narrative and develop a stronger, more compassionate process. A few years ago, I took oversight of a significant portion of our infrastructure. It was a complex undertaking that, if not managed and regulated properly, could have resulted in major disruptions and economic consequences over a large area.
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