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

Three communications best practices for incident handlers

The importance of well-managed communications when handling IT and security incidents cannot be overstated. If updates are not communicated in a timely and accurate manner, misunderstandings, misalignment, and costly errors will occur. Not to mention, resolution will be prolonged. And if highly sensitive information is communicated to those who should not be privy to such, then the risk of legal ramifications is high, as would be the damage.

ServiceNow + Squadcast Integration: Automate IT Ticketing and Project Tracking

ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform used by organizations for their IT ticketing and project management needs. In contrast, Squadcast is an end-to-end incident management and SRE platform that is used by organizations for their reliability requirements.

What SREs Can Learn from Capt. Sully: When to Follow Playbooks

When are you smarter than your playbooks, and when are your playbooks smarter than you? That’s a question that engineers rarely step back to consider. The rational, disciplined parts of our minds tell us that the playbooks we are supposed to follow were carefully designed and tested, and that we should stick to them at all costs.

Monthly Moo March 2022

What a start to 2022 has been for us all. We are incredibly proud of the continuous innovation, velocity and delivery of new features and functionality. We’ve heard success story after success story from our brilliant customers, each unique in their own way and continue to collaborate with them on our roadmap. So, this March update is for you and a massive thank you. We couldn’t do it without you, and it’s been our honor to be part of your success.

xMatters Overview - xMatters Demo

Join Stephen Walters, Solutions Architect and DevOps Institute Ambassador, and Daniel Topham, Solutions Architect, as they guide you through a high-level demo of the xMatters solution. See how xMatters sends alerts to the right users at the right time and enriches notifications with relevant data. And, learn how easy it can be to use Flow Designer to integrate different tools and software to create innovative workflows with drag and drop capability.

Mastering Digital Operations Across the Enterprise

I’m excited to announce that today, PagerDuty is taking our automation capabilities to new scale and scope as we enter into a definitive agreement to acquire Catalytic. With their technology and talented team we accelerate the delivery of enterprise-wide process automation that manages no-code workflows across the business, broadly applicable to any workflow, for any employee.

Workflow Form Layout - xMatters Support

In xMatters, the form layout is where you customize the content and options that are available to the message sender. You can use the form layout to do things like predefine recipients for your messages, add a conference bridge, attach documents, specify a customized sender display name, or add a map that the sender can use to target users at specific sites.