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Integrating Squadcast with Jira (Cloud & Server) - Create tickets & bidirectional sync | Squadcast

You can use this integration guide to install and configure the Squadcast extension in Jira Cloud & Jira Server to create issues in Jira projects when there is an incident in Squadcast. Also learn to automatically or manually sync the status bidirectionally.

Integrating Slack & Squadcast- Trigger, Acknowledge, Resolve & Reassign incidents from Slack channel

You can integrate Squadcast and Slack to collaborate efficiently with your team while working on incidents. Squadcast sends a notification to the configured Slack Channel as soon as an incident is triggered.

Integrating Microsoft Teams & Squadcast - Acknowledge, Resolve & Reassign Incidents | Squadcast

Teams using MS Teams can now integrate with Squadcast and easily Acknowledge, Resolve & Reassign incidents using MS Teams. You can configure Squadcast to send a notification to the configured MS Teams channel as soon as an incident is triggered.

Tagging & Routing at Squadcast | Incident Management | Squadcast

Event Tagging is a rule-based, auto-tagging system with which you can define customized tags based on incident payloads, that get automatically assigned to incidents when they are triggered. Auto-add relevant information like priority, severity or alert type to make incoming incidents context-rich. Route alerts to the right responder(s) based on the tags they carry

Alert Suppression Rules in Squadcast to prevent Alert fatigue | Squadcast

Alert suppression can help you avoid alert fatigue by suppressing notifications for non-actionable alerts. Squadcast will suppress the incidents that match any of the Suppression Rules you create for your Services. These incidents will go into the Suppressed state and you will not get any notifications for them.
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Classifying Severity Levels for Your Organization

Major outages are bound to occur in even the most well-maintained infrastructure and systems. Being able to quickly classify the severity level also allows your on-call team to respond more effectively. Imagine a scenario where your on-call team is getting critical alerts every 15 minutes, user complaints are piling up on social media, and since your platform is inoperative revenue losses are mounting every minute. How do you go about getting your application back on track? This is where understanding incident severity and priority can be invaluable. In this blog we look at severity levels and how they can improve your incident response process.

Setting up Runbooks in Squadcast | SRE Best Practices | Squadcast

A Runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that are documented for reference while working on a critical incident. Sometimes, it can also be referred to as a Playbook. From this video, learn to create, attach, reference and mark progress for incident resolution using Runbooks.

What's New: Updates to Incident Response, PagerDuty Process Automation, Integrations, and More!

Following another successful PagerDuty Summit, development continues across several areas of the product. We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Recent updates from the product team include Incident Response, PagerDuty® Process Automation and PagerDuty® Runbook Automation, Partner Integrations & Ecosystem, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates.

Release Notes: Process Automation and Rundeck OSS 4.4.0

Product managers Forrest Evans and Jake Cohen show off new features and enhancements in PagerDuty Process Automation and Rundeck Open Source version 4.4.0. Version 4.4.0 features two new plugins for #AWS:#Lambda Custom (ephemeral) scripts#ECS/#Fargate Commands For more details on other improvements in this release, see the full Release Notes.