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New Features: AI Help for On-call Schedules, Event Explorer, and Revamped Status Page Designs

We're thrilled to announce the latest enhancements to ilert AI in our most recent update. For those eager to dive into AI functionalities firsthand, we invite you to reach out to us at support@ilert.com. We'd be more than happy to welcome you into our Beta program. Moreover, we always appreciate your input on the ilert roadmap and look forward to hearing your innovative feature suggestions. Now, let's delve into the exciting new updates!

The Debrief: Making incidents less painful with Kerim Satirli of HashiCorp & Lawrence Jones of incident.io

For a lot of teams, incident management can be a bit of a headache. It's stressful. It's not optimized. The whole process can feel like it's being held together with tape. Worst of all? Responders are the ones feeling the brunt of it. But in reality, your customers are, too. Think about it: But honestly, the situation doesn't even have to be so dire. Things can be, generally speaking, totally fine.

AWS Billing & Alerts on Slack

Want to get your Cloud Bill Report on Slack? Want to get alerted when your AWS bill exceeds amount? Want to know your team-wise resources cost on Slack? With Pagerly Cloud Cost App, get your Cloud Reports within Slack. Set your team slack channel, Frequency and Alert threshold. For AWS, we use AWS STS Temporary Role to read your AWS bill. You can also setup team tags to get team wise reports.

Navigating the Waters of System Performance: A Deep Dive into a Recent Incident

In digital transactions, even the slightest hiccup can ripple through the system, causing significant disruptions. Our recent encounter with an unexpected system slowdown and a noticeable drop in transaction success rates is a testament to the intricate balance required to maintain seamless operations. This post aims to shed light on the incident, our findings, and the measures we’ve taken to fortify our system against future disturbances.

Evaluate, Examine , Enact your Alerts with Pagerly

Are you looking to differentiate Alerts from Noise? Are you looking to reduce your Alerts counts? With Pagerly , now annotate all your alerts as Noise or evaluate. Evaluate, Examine , Enact your Alerts with Pagerly Annotate if the alert is known to you or if requires any Action. Add remarks and context for handovers. Add action items for tracking tasks on the Alert Whether your runbook is present or not, tag all information in the alert.

Application Migration: 5 Things that Can Go Wrong

Application migration is the process of moving an application from one environment to another. For example, you may choose to migrate an application from an on-premises enterprise server to a cloud provider’s environment, or from one cloud environment to another. The aim is typically to improve the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the application. Application migration is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution.

How to streamline your ITIL incident management process

Are you trying to streamline your sluggish ITIL incident management? Maybe you’re facing challenges with incident routing, lengthy resolution times, or inconsistent team communication. If so, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) can help you improve IT reliability and incident resolution. This blog unveils the secrets to optimizing your ITIL incident management processes to take your incident response from slow to stellar.

What is incident response?

Incident response is the process of responding to and managing the aftermath of a security breach or cyber attack. It involves a systematic approach to identifying, containing, and mitigating the consequences of an incident in IT, OT or Cybersecurity, with the goal of minimizing the impact on the organization and its stakeholders. It is often exclusively related to Cybersecurity.

Are organizations finding value in the incident metrics they track?

See the full report—Incident metrics pulse: How organizations are measuring their incident management What metrics do you look at to measure how efficient your incident response is? This is a question we get asked all the time and one we empathize with deeply. While there are several well-established incident metrics that organizations commonly use, like MTTR and raw counts of incidents, a vast number of them are ineffective, or worse still entirely misleading.

How Do You Monitor Dynamic Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Architectures?

david.arrowsmith • Feb 15, 2024 Comprehensive visibility across all your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments plays an important part in maintaining the availability, and performance of applications hosted in AWS. Leveraging Interlink Software’s AIOps and Business Service Observability Platform, enterprises can greatly enhance their capability to monitor, manage and optimize the health of applications and act swiftly resolving issues before they impact on customer experience.