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Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn

It is important to invest time and effort in understanding why a system performs the way it does and how we can improve it. Companies continue with practices that yield successful results, but ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than choosing rigid processes. In this blog we will explore anti-patterns in incident response and why you should unlearn those.

What is Event Orchestration? 7 ways to start using this powerful new feature from PagerDuty to reduce noise and automate away manual toil today

Does your team deal with too much noise? Does your heart sink a bit when you think about how much your rulesets have sprawled in order to manage your event processing needs? That’s why we released Event Orchestration earlier this year to help teams reduce the amount of manual work that goes into event management. Event Orchestration is the next evolution of our Event Rules feature set, which helps to route, enrich, and modify events on ingest to remove noise and automate processes.

Dedicated Incident Channel Improvements for Slack on Webhooks V3 - Early Access

Today, we are excited to open Early Access for our improved Dedicated Incident Slack Channel. These improvements include: In order to take advantage of this feature you need to upgrade to Slack on WebHooks V3 and request Early Access from PagerDuty support. Once you are on the right version and have early access, there are two ways to create a dedicated incident channel.

Overcome the integration bottleneck with self-service onboarding tools

The amount of data volume and complexity within tech stacks is continuing to increase with no sign of slowing down. As a result, many organizations are facing significant challenges related to tool sprawl and the overwhelming amount of data that needs to be exchanged between all the different systems. The result is this new rapid pace of data which brings a need for faster flow and exchange of information.

Analytics in Squadcast | Incident Management | On-call | SRE | Squadcast

Analyzing incident data plays a key role to do better SRE. Squadcast's Analytics Dashboard helps you analyze the performance of your Organization/ Team, for a given time period. It also gives you more insight into past outages that affected your systems.

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.