The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.
In order to respond in real-time to urgent, critical digital incidents, on-call responders must be able to take action from anywhere. But when on-call responders become overwhelmed with alerts, they often just “ignore them” because they cannot tell the difference between a real alert and a false one.
Much like in other production environments, the production of cloud services is based on and orchestrated by a plethora of tools-making part of cloud services' overall cloud infrastructure. Given how cloud services are as complex as they are intricate, a vast range of detailed steps need to be performed in a certain order for the production environment to run smoothly, whether it's carrying out maintenance procedures, updates and upgrades, or resolving issues to prevent downtime.
StatusGator has a wide a variety of use cases: from education to help desk to IT and managed services and DevOps, too. All corners of an organization depend on cloud services and StatusGator gives you visibility into the status of all of your vendors. We’ve heard over and over from our DevOps users that alerts and notifications for their teams are already centralized into a single incident management platform such as OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or FireHydrant.
Resolving the incident is only half the battle when it comes to responding to incidents. For many teams, incident communication is an afterthought, leaving stakeholders inside and outside the organization guessing what happened. But ensuring that important information about the incident is disseminated clearly and quickly is essential.
Companies moving their applications and services to the cloud is nothing new, but doing business there requires a solid cloud migration strategy. The list of things to consider is longer than you might think. Fortunately, xMatters has done it successfully and has helped its own customers move to the cloud too. In this article, Product Marketing Manager Erin Jones gives a checklist you can use to get your cloud migration right.
Companies go to extreme lengths to provide their customers the best possible experience—and every company’s concept of what makes a good experience is different. In our RESOLVE ’22 panel Customer experience in action we sat down with Translation.com Director of Strategic Initiatives Sridevi Matukumalli and Akamai Senior Director Harish Menon to talk about this notion.
