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Toil: Still Plaguing Engineering Teams

Our industry has always had localized expressions for work that was necessary but didn’t move the company forward. The SRE movement calls this type of work “toil.” The concept of toil is a unifying force because it provides an impartial framework for identifying — then containing — the work that takes up our time, blocks people from fulfilling their engineering potential, and doesn’t move the company forward.

Cyber, incident, downtime: Three words that chill the board, and how to tame them

There are three words that every member around a boardroom table fears when they hear them strung together: "Cyber... incident... downtime". They are never the precursor to a good meeting! Technology incidents can leave the business in the dark and bring the wheels of industry grinding to a halt. With no operational systems, a Gartner report found that companies can lose up to half a million dollars per hour from severe incidents based on losses and remediation.

What's New: Updates to Incident Response, PagerDuty Process Automation Software & PagerDuty Runbook Automation, Mobile App Experience, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud in addition to the November Product Launch announcements made earlier this month. Recent development and app updates from the product team include Incident Response, PagerDuty® Process Automation, the PagerDuty Mobile App, Integrations, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates.

PagerDuty at re:Invent 2022 Launches Automated Diagnostics for AWS that Enables Organizations to Resolve Incidents Faster So They Can Innovate More

It’s that time of the year! PagerDuty is coming back to sin city for AWS re: Invent 2022! The global conference brings organizations of all sizes and is set to explore themes of modernization, automation, and resiliency in the cloud. With current economic conditions, enterprises are looking to scale operations and optimize costs while delivering always-on, digital experiences to their customers. Automaton plays a key role in helping support operational and cost efficiency.

Services with a Smile: Service Graph and Service Standards

Principal Product Manager Davis Godbout joined the HowTo Happy Hour to talk about the Service Graph and Service Standards features in the PagerDuty platform. Service Graph gives your teams a visual representation of the relationships among your technical and business services. Service Standards guides teams to the benefits of PagerDuty’s features like integrations and configurable incident urgency.