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

Five Considerations for Choosing Self-Managed Automation vs. SaaS Automation

Sometimes heritage is better than new. Some people favor Coca-Cola Classic over New Coke, and heirloom tomatoes over regular tomatoes. Some Luddites might say the same thing about cloud computing. “I won’t put my (app/data) in the cloud! It will be more (secure | reliable | cheaper) if I run it myself in my own data center.”

Flow Designer Overview - xMatters Support

xMatters low-code workflow builder, Flow Designer, lets you build and execute multi-step processes simply by dragging, dropping, and connecting steps. Steps perform an action in your resolution process. That action could be enriching data from an external tool, creating a ticket in a service desk, or sending an actionable notification. The possibilities are endless.

How to build a strong incident response process

When building an incident response process, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the moving parts. Less is more: focus first on building solid foundations that you can develop over time. Here are three things we think form a key part of a strong process. I’d recommend taking these one at a time, introducing incident response throughout your organisation. Just being honest: we’re a startup selling incident management software.

Rundeck + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

Rundeck is an automation tool that helps to make existing automation, scripts, and commands more secure, auditable, and easier to run. It is a software Job scheduler and Run Book Automation system that automates routine processes across development and production environments. It brings together tasks scheduling, multi-node command execution, workflow orchestration. It also logs everything that happens in the system. Squadcast is an end-to-end incident response tool.

Zenduty iOS and Android v3.0

We constantly update the platform to provide the best-in-class experience to our users. These updates are not something that we feel is right for the client; these updates are based on the user data, behavior, and requests that our users provide. We are always excited to bring new updates and share them with people but this one is special! We bring to you Zenduty iOS and Android v3.0!

Quick reads from the Value and Adoption team: The Importance Self-Healing (and How It Works)

Most folks familiar with BigPanda know that automation is a foundational block of our technology. Our platform automates the entire events pipeline with functions including standardizing and deduplicating alerts, cutting down on the volume of incidents, and automated enrichment that provides better context and alert payloads. But these are all part of an inbound flow of events through integrations.

OAuth Authentication - xMatters Support

OAuth is an open standard system that uses tokens to grant access to systems or information without using a password. OAuth authentication authorizes requests to the xMatters Rest API by passing a token in the header of your requests. This means you don’t have to store user names or passwords in your applications, keeping your user’s information secure.

SolarWinds Orion + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy

SolarWinds Orion is a scalable infrastructure monitoring and management platform. It is designed to simplify IT administration for on-premises, hybrid, and software as a service (SaaS) environments, in a single pane of glass. SolarWinds Orion ensures you do not have to struggle with numerous incompatible point monitoring products, as it consolidates the full suite of monitoring capabilities into one platform with cross-stack integrated functionality. Squadcast is an end-to-end incident response tool.