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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Why "why" is the wrong question to be asking after incidents with Dennis Henry of Okta

In last week’s episode of The Debrief, we had on Colette Alexander, Director of Engineering at HashiCorp, to discuss some of the myths around incident response. In that conversation, one of the myths we spoke about was the idea that asking “why” is better than asking “how.” And how, in reality, asking "how" allows you to focus more on the contributing factors that led to an incident happening, whereas “why” tends to single out a person, which can lead to a lot of blame.

Chart a course for Operational Excellence with PagerDuty's Operational Maturity Model

A top priority for many technical leaders is improving the performance and efficiency of their teams to maximize results and minimize costs. With the PagerDuty Operational Maturity Model, IT teams can reduce the total cost of ownership with better efficiency, mitigate the risk of operational failure to ultimately protect customer experience, and shift from a reactive state towards a more proactive approach—by using the PagerDuty Operations Cloud.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 32: Platform Engineering with Paula Kennedy

Supporting developer velocity AND operational efficiency, stability, and security doesn't happen by accident. In this episode, Dormain will sit down with Paula Kennedy to discuss how platform engineering supports businesses go faster, decrease risk, and increase efficiency.

SIGNL4 Onboarding: Customizing Alerts and Notifications

The SIGNL4 Onboarding series walks users through the process's of SIGNL4 from Signup to Alerts to Settings. Today's video focuses on using Overrides to enable different alerting options during different dates and times. This video is packed with helpful tips to help you get the most out of your account.

PTO peace of mind: Sync Grafana OnCall with Google Calendar out-of-office events

Sometimes, the little things can make a big difference. We’ve added a new feature in Grafana Incident & Response Management (IRM) that lets you sync your Google Calendar out-of-office events with Grafana OnCall.

The rising costs of downtime

IT outages are a financial nightmare. Beyond revenue impact, unplanned downtime translates to lost productivity, frustrated customers, and potential reputation damage. To understand the true impact of these events, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted a comprehensive study with more than 400 IT professionals from varying company sizes and roles in North America, EMEA, and APAC regions.