Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

At PagerDuty, we’re counting down the days until the RSA Conference! Why? Because, in addition to being excited to see everyone there, we also have lots of new information to share—information in line with this year’s conference theme: Better. More specifically, how to improve security at your organization by having better processes and better collaboration.

Whether you’re a seasoned IT veteran or an up-and-coming rookie in the field, it’s key that IT teams understand how to develop the most effective processes and plans for on-call schedules and rotations. Let’s take a look at some best practices that IT pros can use to become all-stars on their on-call teams.

With our on-premise alerting software Enterprise Alert you can deeply integrate into your IT infrastructure and other backend systems as well as communication infrastructure. For some alerting scenarios it might be useful to notify teams independently from your own communications environment or infrastructure. In this case our new app-based alerting service SIGNL4 can be a great asset. SIGNL4 is a plug&play cloud solution.

Proactive Incident Analysis, Diagnosis, and Resolution with Service-Centric AIOps. Alerts define the state of an infrastructure resource, application, or any other IP discoverable device. Organizations take action on alerts based on business impact and priority and ensure that IT service performance meets the required standards for availability, usability, and security.

This month is a big month for PagerDuty—we turned 10 on February 18! I never imagined we’d reach this milestone, honestly. A lot of Dutonians have asked me recently: When you first started PagerDuty, did you ever imagine it would become what it is today?