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Fast track video series: Accept and normalize monitoring events

The Open Integration Manager enables you to create custom inbound alert integrations through the configuration of a generic, out-of-the-box inbound integration rather than creating custom code. This self-service and intuitive approach streamlines the integration process, accelerates data flow, and enables faster time to value.

Identify and manage impacted customers with our new Zendesk integration

Customer support tickets are a key indicator of which customers are being actively impacted by an incident. Incident-related support tickets are an important component of impact assessment, incident prioritization, and effective stakeholder communications. FireHydrant's new Zendesk integration allows Enterprise tier users to: With our Zendesk integration you can streamline customer impact assessments and incident communications, resulting in reduced support response times and incident durations.

Fast track video series: Extracting alert data from emails using BigPanda

BigPanda's easy-to-use self-service Email Parser receives information in email form and converts the data into BigPanda alerts. This is ideal for monitoring tools and systems that do not support REST API, the email parser extracts alert data such as status and properties right from the email's subject or body without the need for custom code.

Building Workflows, Part 2 - the executor and evaluation

This is the second in a two part series on how we built our workflow engine, and continues from Building workflows (part 1). Having covered core workflow concepts and a deep-dive into the Workflow Builder in part one, this post describes the workflow executor, and concludes the series with an evaluation of the project against our goals.

What Makes a Perfect Incident Management Checklist? We Asked the Experts!

The perfect incident management checklist doesn’t need to be a fantasy. In fact, it shouldn’t be! The perfect incident management checklist should cover several topics, be broken down into bite-size sections, and help team members quickly identify tasks that fall under their responsibility. We asked our experts what should be included in the perfect incident management checklist. Here are their answers.

Building Workflows, Part 1 - Core concepts and the Workflow Builder

At incident.io, we’re building tools to help people respond to incidents, often by automating their organisations’ process. Much of this is powered by our Workflows product, which customers can use to achieve things like: Workflows as a product feature are incredibly powerful, and we’re proud of the value they provide to our customers. Behind-the-scenes, though, building something like workflows can be difficult.

How to drive better decision-making with reliability management

Almost every organization is going through digital transformation. According to IDC, direct digital transformation investment is growing globally at a compound annual growth rate of 15.5% and is expected to approach $6.8 trillion by 2023. Customers quickly embrace the benefits of a customer experience reshaped by technology. However, they have little patience when that technology doesn’t work as expected.