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Reliability vs Availability: A complete guide to system performance metrics

In an always-digital world where users expect reliable services, businesses must measure two critical metrics: reliability and availability. However, reliability and availability are terms often used interchangeably but understanding the difference is crucial when building systems that users can trust and depend on. Both metrics are vital, but depending on your use case, you might prioritize one over the other. Take the 2017 AWS S3 outage.

RedIron: Unifying Alerts and Notifications in IT

RedIron Canada, a Managed Services Provider (MSP), Retail Integrator, and Solutions Provider, that specializes in managing cloud-based systems across AWS, Azure, and Oracle. Their expertise in IT monitoring and managed services makes them a trusted partner for retail businesses across North America. RedIron relied on traditional alert notification methods like email and SMS for their IT monitoring operations.

January 2025 Product Update - Easier Onboarding, Better User Experience, and Reliability Improvements

For the last two months, we have focused on improving the onboarding experience for users so that they can get started with monitoring with minimal effort. We have also added several improvements in the backend to make the service more robust and reliable. Some of the usability improvements are driven by user feedback. Others incorporate what we would personally like to see in such a monitoring service. We have also improved the dashboard user experience.

Enhancing Your Developer Experience: New SDKs for TypeScript, Go, and Terraform and Improved API Documentation

We built FireHydrant to be the kind of platform we’d want to use as developers, giving you the same tools and flexibility we rely on every day. With over 350 publicly accessible API endpoints, we’ve always believed in giving developers the power to customize and extend our platform to meet their exact needs.

What's New: Supercharge workflows with Message Templates

We’re excited to introduce Message Templates, a powerful new feature designed to streamline communication and ensure consistency across teams. With pre-configured templates curated by Enterprise Administrators, OnPage phone app users can now send standardized messages with just a few taps—saving valuable time and reducing the risk of miscommunication in critical situations.

A Plan to Achieve IT Resilience

Ensuring your organization can continue running critical services, even during unexpected challenges, requires a solid IT resilience plan. An IT resilience plan involves more than just traditional disaster recovery. It focuses on keeping vital applications, data, and business operations intact no matter what happens. In this guide, we’ll explore key components and best practices to help you establish a comprehensive plan for ongoing business continuity.
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The Evolution of Enterprise Incident Management

In today's fast-paced digital era, ensuring seamless operations is more critical than ever for enterprises. Systems are more complex, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and the margin for error has dramatically narrowed. The way organizations respond to and manage incidents has undergone a remarkable transformation. From the reactive approaches of the past to the AI-driven, proactive strategies of today, enterprise incident management has evolved to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Learnings from eight major outages of 2024 and best practices to stay prepared

While we cannot eliminate internet outages, lag, or security breaches, reflecting on the lessons learned from these events helps us cope, innovate, and implement measures to reduce how often they occur. In 2024, website and application outages had a significantly greater impact on the world than in previous years, leaving the IT community with valuable insights to consider.

How to streamline ITIL processes for incident management

Are you facing challenges with incident routing, lengthy resolution times, or inconsistent team communication? If so, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) can help. It’s a proven framework that goes beyond fundamental incident management to improve IT reliability, speed up issue resolution, and enhance overall IT service delivery. ITIL processes can help you save time, resources, and headaches.