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Introducing Squadcast and ServiceNow Integration For Enhanced Operational Efficiency & Faster Incident Management

We are excited to announce our bidirectional integration between ServiceNow and Squadcast, designed to elevate your Incident Management capabilities. ServiceNow provides a robust platform-as-a-service, delivering advanced automation and process workflow tailored for enterprise environments. Through this integration, you can harness ServiceNow's workflow and ticketing features alongside Squadcast's strong On-Call scheduling and SRE-driven incident response capabilities.

What is Ping Command: A Deep Dive into Network Diagnostics

The Ping command is an essential tool in network diagnostics, crucial for checking connectivity, solving problems, and measuring network performance. In the complex world of digital communication, where connections stretch across long distances and pass through many devices, knowing how to use the Ping command is extremely important. In this detailed exploration, we will examine the Ping command thoroughly, exploring its uses, and highlighting its importance in keeping networks strong and reliable.

New MTTX analytics to drive your reliability roadmap

Analytics are great. We can all agree there. But not all analytics are created equal. FireHydrant has long offered incident analytics dashboards that provide an in-depth look at the entire incident lifecycle. You can see how incidents impact services and teams, understand retrospective participation and completion, and even get insight into follow-ups. But great analytics do more than simply organize data. They help you tell a story.

Building a Privacy-First AI for Incident Management

At Rootly, we're integrating AI into incident management with a keen eye on privacy. It's not just about tapping into AI's potential; it's about ensuring we respect and protect our customers’ privacy and sensitive data. Here's a quick overview of how we're blending innovation with strong privacy commitments.

What is an event?

Terms like ‘event’ play an important role in understanding IT and OT operations. There is usually an abundance of interpretations and definitions. You will also find different naming conventions with each vendor of tools for monitoring and service management. So, let’s dive in. How does ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) define an event? ITIL links events and notifications directly by saying.

What is an alert?

Terms like ‘alert’ play an important role in understanding IT and OT operations. There is usually an abundance of interpretations and definitions. You will also find different naming conventions with each vendor of tools for monitoring and service management. So, let’s dive in. How is an alert defined? Some define alerts as events that meet a certain thresh-hold, have a specific relevance (as in ITIL – events of warning/alert type) or require action.

The revolution in critical incident response at Dock: efficient integration and service improvement

In this article, we will explore how Dock is working to significantly enhance its response time to critical incidents, emphasizing effective integration between tools as key to success. We will address how we challenge the conventional approach by shifting the focus from Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) to Mean Time to Combat (MTTC), a customized metric that measures the time between incident detection and effective communication involving professionals capable of resolving it.

How to set up on-call compensation

Once you set up an on-call team, the next step is to decide their compensation. There might be several questions in your mind right now: "How do we fairly value on-call time?" "Is it a flat rate or hourly?" and a few others. So we are here to help you set up an on-call compensation system because we know compensating people fairly lays the foundation of a healthy business. Are you still stuck on setting up an on-call team? Read this guide first: 7 steps to set up an on-call team.