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Slack outage 2021 welcomes everyone back to work

It’s a new year and what better way to start working from home for the 10th month of the pandemic than with a Slack outage. For more than 3 hours on Monday 4th January, Slack users were left to fend for themselves with the use of none other than emails! to communicate with their teams – a notion that was surely lost by the 2010’s.

Incident Ready: How to Chaos Engineer Your Incident Response Process - FireHydrant

We’re pretty sure using a real incident to test a new response process is not the best idea. So, how do you test your process ahead of time? In this video, FireHydrant CEO, Robert Ross, will share how FireHydrant customers leverage best practices to break, mitigate, resolve, and fireproof incident processes. We’ll show you how to use chaos engineering philosophies to stress test 3 critical parts of a great process.

Getting to know IT asset management

It’s funny how once you are officially in a department such as IT, everyone assumes you have deep knowledge about everything from resetting a printer to spooling up a complex cloud dev instance. And as time goes by, it gets harder and harder to admit unfamiliarity about certain areas of techdom. Take IT asset management (ITAM), for example. Yes, we all know what software is. We know what a laptop or desktop computer is.

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Boost IT Savings with CloudReady and Incident Workflow

Companies love data. Aggregating data from multiple sources makes decision-making easier and brings a new depth of the conversation to business meetings. But all of this is at the management level. IT managers and administrators also search for data from multiple sources to ensure that the ecosystem works. Companies demand the continued maintenance and availability of mission-critical applications. Without a framework or incident workflow, revenue can suffer, and customers churn if the company does not proactively address problems that arise in its infrastructure.

User-defined functions in Multi-Step API Monitoring

When it comes to monitoring your API, you need a tool that has the flexibility to handle the complexities of a modern website or app. Uptrends’ Multi-step API gives you the power to interact with API endpoints, evaluate the results, reuse response data, create automatic variables, track custom metrics, and now transform response data with user-defined functions.

Adding even more uptime check locations to Oh Dear

We're starting this new year strong with an additional new 8 locations to check your websites from! We've just finished adding uptime capacity in the following locations. That's 8 new locations to configure any website monitoring from! In all our previous locations, we've increased our server capacity to support our continued growth.

Case Study: How Railway Corporation Unleashed Economies of Scale with Motadata

Motadata enabled a railway corporation, with headquarters in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, under the brackets of Ministry of Railways to monitor, analyze and resolve IT operational issues to establish a centralized modern infrastructure in their project. The project is one of the India’s most ambitious railway projects that runs through coastal western India, linking Mumbai to the western region of Goa and Mangalore. It covers about 170 railway stations under its remit.