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Priority-Based Escalation Policies: Because Not All Notifications Burn the Same

Let's face it – not all notifications are created equal. That paper cut of a CSS bug probably doesn't need the same response as your production database doing its best impression of a black hole. Today, we're thrilled to announce Priority-Based Escalation Policies, a powerful new way to ensure your team's response matches the notification severity.

Demo Roundups! Zero Trust Security + Runbook Automation

The shift to zero trust security requires a model that is identity-based, centrally managed, widely encrypted, and always authenticated and authorized. PagerDuty Runbook Automation enables users to automate, orchestrate, and accelerate issue resolution with best practice security guardrails, reducing human error and saving time. Host: Sid Verma (Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty) Guests: Christopher Hills (Chief Security Strategist at BeyondTrust); Jake Cohen (Senior Product Manager at PagerDuty)

PWA Checklist: How to Ensure High Performance for Your Progressive Web App

In this article, we’ll share the structured checklist that we use to measure and optimize ilert's PWA performance. ‍ At ilert, we build our Progressive Web App (PWA) using Capacitor, Ionic, React, and MUI to deliver a robust and responsive incident management platform. Progressive Web Apps are revolutionizing web experiences by combining the best of web and mobile applications. They offer fast native-like experiences, offline capabilities, and many more.

Going beyond MTTx measuring what "good" incident management looks like

Traditional MTTx metrics have long been the go-to measure for incident management effectiveness, but they often fail to provide a full picture or drive meaningful improvements. We analyzed data from over 100,000 incidents to develop new industry benchmark metrics that better define what "good" incident management looks like.

Rethinking WhatsApp Alerts - A Data-Driven Approach

WhatsApp has become a major alerting channel for incident response teams. It's popular and for many, a great alternative to SMS. In our 2024 recap, we mentioned how Spike sent over 25,000 alerts on WhatsApp. It is now the 2nd most used alert channel for responders on Spike (rising from 4th spot in 2023). But... I will be the first one to admit – the WhatsApp alerts experience needed work to help responders react to incidents quicker!

PagerDuty Setup: From Beginner to Pro in 10 Steps

This comprehensive guide walks you through the complete PagerDuty setup process, organized into 10 steps. We've structured the guide to match your team's growth journey—starting with essential configurations for small teams, advancing to robust solutions for growing teams, and wrapping up with enterprise-grade features for large organizations. By the end, you'll have a fully operational incident management system set up on PagerDuty tailored to your specific needs.

Finding the Right Tools for Digital Transformation

Given the current climate in the federal government, it’s critical that public sector IT leaders find innovative solutions to do more with less. That’s a real challenge for these leaders who must balance with current alert backlogs against their agency limited IT budget and resources. Everyday, more than a thousand alerts to track down and as response times are slowing and some incident managers are burning out.

Feature Spotlight - Task Lists

When an incident occurs, teams often perform a known set of steps in a specific order to help identify and triage the incident. For Base and Advanced plan users, the Incidents menu includes a Task Lists section where teams can build out priority lists for different incident types or use cases. For example, a list of failover tasks, or the tasks required to perform a deployment rollback. With task lists, Incident Commanders can be sure that resolvers know exactly what needs to be done to quickly resolve incidents.

Opsgenie is shutting down. Here's what that means, and how incident.io can help

Atlassian recently announced they’ll be shutting down Opsgenie, their popular on-call alerting tool. After June 4, 2025, no new Opsgenie accounts will be created, and by April 5, 2027, the service will shut down completely. Users don’t seem happy about it. If you’re currently using Opsgenie, this news is significant. A key part of your incident response process is disappearing, and Atlassian suggests moving to their other products, like Jira Service Management or Compass.