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Introducing Past Incident Feature | Incident Context and History | Squadcast

Introducing Squadcast's Past Incidents feature which helps incident responders by presenting them with past incidents related to the same service. It employs data science techniques to match and display a historical list of similar incidents from the same service you are currently investigating. This aids in expediting issue resolution by offering valuable insights, such as historical context, prior incident details, timing patterns, and past solutions.

What is Prometheus Alertmanager?

Prometheus Alertmanager is a powerful tool designed to handle various alerts generated by Prometheus. It plays a vital role in the overall monitoring ecosystem, acting as a centralized hub for managing alert notifications. With Prometheus Alertmanager and its robust notification management capabilities, you can efficiently define alert routing and notification policies. This empowers you to take timely actions and mitigate potential issues before they impact your service availability.

G2 Fall Report Positions Squadcast among the leading Incident Management, and IT Alerting Tools

Squadcast established itself as a Momentum Leader and High Performer across different regions in the Incident Management and IT Alerting tool categories. We have solidified our leadership in the Mid Market segment across various regions, this recognition stems from our dedicated customer base.

A Detailed Guide to Setting Up Effective On-Call Rotations

On-Call Schedules are predefined rotations/shifts assigning team members to be available for incident response at specific times. They are essential for ensuring round-the-clock support, swift issue/incident resolution, and continuous service availability. For a robust On-Call system, proper schedules are essential serving as the backbone of reliable Incident Response, and ensuring your team is well-prepared to address technical challenges effectively.

Three Ways to Better Appreciate your SREs and DevOps Engineers

DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers are vitally important to the continued health of your product and business. We all know it’s true, and yet people in these roles often feel underappreciated and undervalued. This sort of work runs into the issue of “when process and infrastructure break, it gets shoved in the spotlight; but when everything works perfectly, no one notices.” ‍

Unified Incident Management: Merits of Combined On-Call and Incident Response | Squadcast

In this session, we explore the crucial aspects of effective on-call management and incident response in product organizations. Squadcast combines On-Call and Incident Response into a single platform using automation capabilities for enhanced reliability, continuous learning, and better productivity. 🔍 Timestamps.

AI is not intellignece: Bill Kennedy - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.

Bugs in NASAs codebase : Bill Kennedy - The Reliability Podcast

The Reliability podcast aims to speak with engineers who have worked on large, complex systems and glean through their learnings. What best practices should one imbibe? What are non-negotiable learnings to become better at a craft? What’s ‘engineering’ going to be like with the advent of AI? We answer these and more tracing personal journeys of engineers who have built stellar careers around decoding the innumerable intricacies of software engineering.

Choosing the Right Career Path in Tech: Software Engineering vs. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

The tech industry is booming, and there are many different career paths. But, two of the most popular and in-demand roles are Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) blends elements of software engineering with IT operations, focusing on reliability. On the other hand, SWE Software Engineering involves designing, developing, testing, and deploying software applications.