The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.
Organizations striving to improve their operational efficiencies must know how to reduce MTTR as it plays a key role in today’s fiercely competitive business landscape. Customer satisfaction is a top priority for most businesses and late response to their queries or issues can have a negative impact. To track the response and resolution time, businesses measure their MTTR score. MTTR is a key metric that gives insight as to how much time an organization takes to resolve an incident or issue.
Welcome to the first Signals Captain’s Log! My name is Robert, and I’m a recovering on-call engineer and the CEO of FireHydrant. When we started our journey of building Signals, a viable replacement for PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc, we decided very early that we would tell everyone what makes Signals unique, and what better way than to tell you how we’re building it (without revealing too much 😉). Let’s jump in.
The European Commission has introduced the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) to bolster the digital infrastructure of the financial sector within the European Union (EU). As part of the EU's wider digital finance strategy, DORA's objective is to create a comprehensive framework governing digital operational resilience. Financial institutions must ensure full compliance with DORA by January 2025.
Incidents put systems and organizations to the test. They pose particular challenges at scale: in complex distributed environments overseen by many different teams, managing incidents requires extensive structure and planning. But incidents, by definition, break structures and foil plans. As a result, they demand carefully orchestrated yet highly flexible forms of response. This post will provide a look into how we manage incidents at Datadog. We’ll cover our entire process.
