Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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

OpsGenie vs. PagerDuty: Which Incident Management Tool Should You Choose in 2025

If you’re comparing OpsGenie vs. PagerDuty, there’s something important you need to know right away: OpsGenie is shutting down. OpsGenie has been a trusted ally for incident teams for over a decade. In our Ode to OpsGenie, we celebrated its legacy—from simplifying on-call rotations to reducing alert noise effectively. Atlassian announced that OpsGenie sales will stop on June 4, 2025, with a complete shutdown by April 5, 2027.

Incident management vs. problem management: A practical guide for SREs

In Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), distinguishing incident management from problem management is crucial. While both processes aim to maintain system reliability, they fulfill distinct roles: incident management focuses on quickly resolving immediate disruptions, whereas problem management identifies and rectifies root causes to prevent recurrence. Effectively combining these processes helps minimize downtime, enhances system resilience, and fosters a proactive operational approach.

Do You Still Need an ITSM Platform in 2025?

The world of IT has undergone a seismic shift over the past two decades. What was once a landscape dominated by physical servers, on-premise data centers, and monolithic applications has transformed into a dynamic ecosystem of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems. Yet, many enterprises still rely on traditional IT Service Management (ITSM) tools that were designed for a bygone era.

Navigating the role of an incident commander

When critical services fail, every second counts. Teams scramble, information floods in, and clarity quickly dissolves into confusion. In these high-pressure moments, a single point of leadership, the incident commander, can mean the difference between a quick recovery and prolonged disruption.

How Should You Compensate Your Employees for Being On Call?

In today’s fast-paced, always-connected world, many businesses require employees to be on call to ensure smooth operations and quick responses to critical issues. However, compensating employees for being on call can be a tricky subject. It’s important to strike a balance between fairness, accountability, and incentivizing the right behaviors. Let’s explore four common methods of compensating employees for being on call, along with their advantages and disadvantages.

Best Practices and Demo: Grafana Cloud's End-to-End IRM Solution | Grafana Labs

Grafana Cloud’s Incident Response and Management solution provides workflows that span creating alerts and SLOs, managing on-call and incident response, and learning from postmortems – all within the context of your observability stack. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for making the most of this IRM solution, including leveraging the historical incident data that’s accessible within Grafana Cloud.

Drive ROI and Efficiency in Government

Agencies across government are at a critical cross-roads with digital service transformation. Which direction to turn between answering the call to be more operationally efficient and how to embrace GenAI technology to deliver fresh ROI, according to The Total Economic Impact of the PagerDuty Operations Cloud for Public Sector ebook. Driving operational efficiency is no longer a long-term aspirational goal for government agencies, it’s now a matter of executive policy.

Sync Pagerduty Rotation Oncall with Slack Usergroup

Sync Pagerduty Rotations Schedule , Oncall with Slack Usergroup using Pagerly In pagerly, Choose your team name and Slack Usergroup Handle which would automatically sync with Pagerduty Latest Oncall Pagerly would remove the previous oncall and add the latest one automatically. Anyone can mention the oncall using the slack usergroup handle and they would be notified instantly Add permanent users if you want to have in slack usergroup even though they are not oncall.