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PagerTree 4.0 is finally here!

Today I am excited to announce we have officially shipped PagerTree 4.0! Here are the highlights: This effort has been a year and half in development and I sincerely want to thank each and every one of our customers for the constructive feedback, ideas, and countless hours on Zoom calls. Without you this journey wouldn’t be possible. We are excited to get this major release shipped, just in time for the holidays. You can check out the full details of the upgrade below.

How Many SREs Does Your Company Need? Here's How to Decide

So you’ve decided to take advantage of Site Reliability Engineering by hiring SREs for your company. Now, you have a second decision to make: Exactly how many SREs to hire. Do you need just one or two SREs? Or should you build a sprawling SRE team, with a dozen or more SREs on hand to support your organization’s reliability needs? The answers to these questions will, of course, vary; every business’s needs are different.

Webinar: Making the case for AIOps

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has risen in popularity within the technology landscape. It’s become a buzzword in the marketing world, and while there are many ways to define AIOps, the best way to start thinking about it is through the lens of outcomes, correlation and strategy—it’s all about the data.

Why you should ditch your overly detailed incident response plan

When critical incidents happen — which they inevitably do 😅 — and you’re in the middle of trying to figure out what the best thing to do is, it can feel comforting to know that you’ve got a pre-prepared list of instructions to follow, commonly known as an “incident response plan”: In theory this sounds quite simple, and a typical flow you might envision is: It might be tempting to think that the hardest part of running incidents is finding or writing a checkl

Announcing Incident watchers: Subscribe to incidents and receive incident updates in real-time

Hey folks, We’re back with another feature update for all our customers! We have recently gone live with the incident watchers feature which nests within an incident details page. This blog will outline how you can access the feature, its primary functionalities and how we foresee it helping improve your incident management process. Note: This feature will be available to pro, premium and enterprise plan users only.

New reports stress the importance of strategic incident management practice

Engineers have been managing incidents for as long as they’ve been building software, but the idea of incident management as a strategic practice in its own right is still finding its place. We’re starting to see big shifts in that area, though — more companies are dedicating headcount, resources, and tools to help them better prepare for, respond to, and learn from their incidents.