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Making Critical Incidents Impossible to Ignore - Derdack SIGNL4 - The Alerting Experts

In this episode, Doreen Jacobi talks with Henri-Paul Bourassa, IT Administrator at exo, the public transit organization serving the Greater Montréal area. Like many IT teams responsible for around-the-clock operations, Henri-Paul's team already had monitoring in place. The challenge wasn't finding issues - it was making sure the right people were alerted quickly enough to respond.

On Call During the FIFA World Cup? Here's How IT Teams Stay Connected

Watching the FIFA World Cup with friends while on call? Being on call doesn't have to mean missing out on life's biggest moments. Whether you're at a packed sports bar, hosting a watch party, or cheering on your favorite team, critical incidents can happen when you least expect them. That's why IT teams rely on OnPage's persistent, attention-grabbing mobile alerts. Unlike emails, texts, or traditional notifications that can get lost in the noise, OnPage's critical alerts are designed to break through distractions and ensure urgent issues are never missed.

Incident Management Teams: Ready for Critical Situations

A malfunction in the baggage handling system at Berlin Brandenburg Airport disrupts the conveyor network that transports luggage across the airport. With more than 70,000 passengers traveling through BER every day and flight schedules timed down to the minute, even a small disruption can quickly lead to delays, missed connections, cancellations, and high costs. Fortunately, the Incident Management team receives the alert in real time and responds immediately.

Top Mobile Incident Notification Systems for IT Teams 2026

Modern IT incidents don’t stick to a 9-to-5 schedule. System failures, security breaches, and performance degradations can happen at any time, and today’s distributed teams must respond instantly, wherever they are. The ability to receive, acknowledge, and manage incidents directly from a smartphone is no longer a luxury—it’s a core requirement for effective incident response in 2026.

How to Reduce On-Call Burnout in IT Teams

On-call duty is a high-stakes reality in modern IT and digital ops teams. While essential for ensuring system reliability, the chronic stress it creates doesn’t have to be a given. On-call burnout is a serious threat to your team’s well-being and your organization’s performance, but it isn’t inevitable. It’s a systemic problem, not a personal failing.

What's New in the Updated OnPage Enterprise Management Console

Take a quick walkthrough of what’s new in the updated OnPage Enterprise Management Console. In this video, we highlight the latest updates designed to give admins more visibility, flexibility and self-service control across critical communication workflows. You’ll see what’s new across the console, including: The updated Enterprise Management Console helps teams manage on-call schedules, critical alerts, escalation workflows and Dedicated Lines more efficiently from one centralized place.

Creating Schedule Overrides in OnPage

Learn how override schedules work in OnPage and how admins can quickly manage temporary on-call coverage changes without rebuilding the entire schedule. With OnPage overrides, teams can adjust coverage for vacations, sick days, shift swaps, after-hours changes or last-minute availability issues. During the override window, alerts are automatically routed to the covering responder. Once the override ends, the schedule returns to the regular on-call rotation.

How Property Managers Can Respond Faster to Critical Issues | OnPage

When managing properties and facilities remotely, every minute matters. Whether it's an HVAC failure, maintenance request, or after-hours emergency, critical issues need immediate attention. Traditional communication methods like phone calls, emails, and text messages can easily be missed, delaying response times and impacting tenant satisfaction. In this video, discover how OnPage helps property managers and facilities teams receive critical alerts in real time, coordinate responses faster, and maintain visibility throughout the incident lifecycle.

Reduce Alert Fatigue with Composite Alerting in Hosted Graphite | Tutorial

Tired of noisy alerts waking you up for issues that are not actually impacting your services? In this tutorial, we walk through MetricFire's Composite Alerting capabilities and show how to combine multiple metric conditions into a single high-confidence alert using AND / OR logic. Learn how to: Reduce alert fatigue and false positives Create service level alerts in Graphite Combine CPU, latency, and database metrics into meaningful alerts Use conditional logic to improve signal quality Build smarter observability workflows with Hosted Graphite.