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G2: Squadcast Leads in Incident Management and Secures Key Wins Across IT Alerting

We’re thrilled to share that Squadcast has been recognized as a Leader for the second time in the Incident Management Category. This win celebrates our pioneering role in Unified Incident Management, where we bring together On-Call Management, Incident Response, Workflow Automation, AI/ML-powered Noise Reduction, and SLO tracking—all in one platform.

10 Signs Your Organization Needs an Incident Management Tool

In the world where digital infrastructure forms the backbone of operations, incidents—disruptions to service, system downtime, security breaches, or technical failures—are inevitable. For any organization that depends on technology, the ability to respond swiftly and effectively to these incidents can mean the difference between a minor hiccup and a business catastrophe.

How SRE Teams Manage Downtime with Slack War Rooms

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams play a very important role in ensuring that digital services remain operational. However, at times, they can face certain incidents and outages, which are inevitable for any complex system. During these disruptions, it is important to respond quickly and efficiently to reduce the impact on the organization and its users. This is where Slack War Rooms come into the picture. When an outage strikes, the clock starts ticking.

Balancing Proactive Work and Firefighting in Site Reliability Engineering

As an SRE, you constantly juggle proactive tasks to improve reliability and scalability with reactive firefighting when issues arise—often leaving little time to address the root causes. This is not unlike the firefighters of Ancient Rome, the Vigiles, who were tasked with not only responding to fires but also preventing them. Established in 6 AD under Emperor Augustus, the Vigiles patrolled the streets of Rome, looking for potential fire hazards.