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Finally: alerting and on-call scheduling for how you actually work

TL;DR You deserve a better alerting and on-call tool. So we built Signals. In our early days, we often used the tagline, “You just got paged. Now what?” It encapsulated how FireHydrant solved for all of the messy bits that come after your alert is fired, from incident declaration all the way through to retrospective. At the time, we saw alerting and on-call scheduling as a solved problem.

Integrating Prometheus AlertManager with PagerDuty in Calico

In the fast-paced world of Kubernetes, guaranteeing optimal performance and reliability of underlying infrastructure is crucial, such as container and Kubernetes networking. One key aspect of achieving this is by effectively managing alerts and notifications. This blog post emphasizes the significance of configuring alerts in a Kubernetes environment, particularly for Calico Enterprise and Cloud, which provides Kubernetes workload networking, security, and observability.

Start Monitoring Third-Party Outages in Opsgenie

In today's digital world, we rely a lot on third-party services. These services are great because they help us grow, be more flexible, and work more efficiently. However, they also make things more complicated and risky. If a service we depend on stops working, it can cause big problems. To deal with this, we're excited to introduce a new feature that connects Opsgenie with IsDown.

Joe's Triumph with an Alert Fatigue Solution

In the fast-paced world of operations management, every alert bears weight, and Joe’s team found themselves caught in a relentless stream of notifications. The challenge they faced was alert fatigue – a persistent obstacle that blurred the lines between critical incidents and routine matters. As the head of operations, Joe navigated through this influx of alerts, ranging from urgent server issues demanding immediate attention to routine notifications like a failed login.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 27: GovTech and platforms with Bryon Kroger

How do highly regulated and bureaucratic organizations become more innovative to meet the needs of customers, citizens, and warfighters? We'll hear a perspective from Bryon Kroger on leading transformational change and the power of platforms in some of the most security-sensitive government agencies. Here are some of the resources mentioned in the interview.

Incident Commander Training Strategies: What The Books Don't Tell You

It has been lightly revised and reposted with his permission from the original article on Medium. So, you’re training incident commanders (IC), and you have your group read Google’s SRE books. Everyone knows what they are supposed to do and you are ready for any incident, right? Not quite. Half of your team complains that the descriptions are too vague or don’t apply to their situations, and the other half just starts to improvise. The result?

Breaking Down the 2024 VOID Report: "Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software"

In an era where automation and artificial intelligence are increasingly integral to software development and operations, the 2024 VOID Report sheds critical light on the nuanced impacts of these technologies. Here, we delve deeper into the report's key findings and explore predictions for the near future, weaving a comprehensive narrative highlighting challenges and opportunities.