Incident Response Platform: What Is It & Do You Need One?
Looking into incident response platforms? We discuss what an incident response platform is, what tasks it handles, and the benefits of having one.
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Promoted to SRE Advocate: A Dream Turned Reality
I get chills thinking about a line from the first film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Gene Wilder as Wonka nearly whispers it to Charlie, as if it is secret information: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. For me, the quote (taken from a poem by Arthur O'Shaughnessy) is austere: We are the creators of what we create, and what we create becomes what we are.
Monitoring Your Platform From Multiple Locations
Mature start-ups and scale-ups create wonderful and challenging environments for Engineers. As the product they’re creating matures and the brand becomes a successful one, the user base generally starts growing, and, for some companies, in places they might not expect it to grow. As that happens, new challenges arise for Engineers. One of these challenges is pretty straightforward to guess. Basically having a particular product available throughout different regions of the world.
Amazon OpenSearch + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy
Developers often find comfort in embracing open-source software for numerous reasons. One of the most important reasons is the freedom to use that software anywhere and how they wish to. Amazon OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch. It lets you perform interactive log analytics and real-time application monitoring with ease.
7 ways tagging incidents can teach you about system health
One of the most powerful ways to prepare for future incidents is to study and learn from patterns in past incidents. Blameless Reliability Insights highlights these patterns for you, with out-of-the-box dashboards that automatically collect and present all types of statistical information about your incidents.
Custom Reliability Insights Reports: Follow Up Action Items
Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.
Blameless Reliability Insights: FUA (Follow Up Action) Statuses
Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.
Blameless Reliability Insights: How to Build Custom Reports
Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.
SRE Roles and Responsibilities Defined
SRE is a practice that creates a bridge between operations and development. We discuss the roles and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer.
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Top Five Pitfalls of On-Call Scheduling
On-call schedules ensure that there's someone available day and night to fix or escalate any issues that arise. Using an on-call schedule helps keep things running smoothly. These on-call workers can be anyone from nurses and doctors required to respond to emergencies to IT and software engineering staff who need to fix service outages or significant bugs. Being on-call can be challenging and stressful. But with the proper practices in place, on-call schedules can fit well into an employee's work-life balance while still meeting the organization's needs.