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Automated incident response in ITOps

Most IT leaders realize that automating repetitive, low-level incident response actions is vital to multiple benefits. To name just a few, these include: In IT, incident response refers to addressing any event that disrupts normal service, application, security operation, or performance. Using AI and machine learning, automation addresses incident analysis, detection, investigation, triage, and response. The question is often identifying where to start or the best approach.

Understanding Mean Time to Resolve

Back in the day, IT teams often spent countless business hours manually sifting through logs, diagnosing issues, and identifying the root cause of a system failure. This painstaking process frequently led to prolonged downtimes and frustrated users. Today, organizations can’t afford such inefficiencies. Keeping systems running smoothly is key, and that’s where critical metrics like Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) come into play.

Mitigate the Risk of Operational Failure with PagerDuty Advance, GenAI for Every Step of the Incident Lifecycle

As organizations increasingly rely on complex digital infrastructure, they must be ready to move rapidly when major incidents occur. The recent global outage has shown just how fragile IT systems can be. With mounting pressure to deliver seamless customer experiences, GenAI and automation present an opportunity to manage risk more effectively, by ensuring responders have the right information to restore services quickly.

Microsoft Outage MO842351: Understanding Impact & Scope Saves You From Raising Unnecessary Alarm Bells

Just ten days after the last major Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft reported another incident at 8:48 am on July 30, 2024. The message on X was vague, offering limited details about the scope and impact of the problem. This left many IT teams preparing for what they anticipated would be another rocky day.

Optimizing Incident Management: Effective Stakeholder Communication with 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.

Where does the time go after you resolve an incident?

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!

25 Best Incident Management Software and Communication Platforms 2024

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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Incidents are lessons, not failures

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.