The latest News and Information on Status Pages and related technologies.
The Incident Management and Status Page solution that lets you organize your enterprise IT team and communicate with users for a coordinated response that restores services rapidly. StatusCast works as an Incident Management platform to increase employee productivity inside organizations. There’s a lot you can do with StatusCast status pages to create the brand look you are seeking.
There is a moment in every company when 24x7 support is needed. Congrats! The next step is to start building an on-call team. In this article, we'll go through some of the aspects you should consider. We'll keep it small and, in a future article, go deep into each step.
Status pages are a clever solution to bundle all your services, and see the status of them at one sight. We at iLert took this one step further: why not build your status page as code using Terraform? We want to show you how we make it possible, and how you can set it up for your own infrastructure - a real SaC solution.
StatusGator and IsDown are two products that provide status page aggregation and vendor status monitoring. At a first glance, these two products look the same but they are quite different in reality. StatusGator was launched in 2015, and has been aggregating status data for more than 7 years. IsDown is a newer alternative that is similar but lacks many key features that StatusGator has. To make the best choice, we will closely examine the differences between the two.
As digital services have become increasingly important to businesses and organizations, reducing downtimes and service disruptions have become critical objectives for business operations. This means management reporting and KPI’s are now crucial to quality management, providing the insight to let you improve incident remediation over time.
Check our September 2022 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.
We’ve just released a new feature! Presenting Public Dashboards. It is one of the most requested features in the last 6 months. People wanted to have an easy way to share the dashboard with their team and customers. Now it’s possible! And the best news is that it is accessible to every plan.
Welcome to the future! SaaS (Software as a Service) rules the world. When just a few years ago businesses were buying software and installing it in-house, now they're renting it. There's a SaaS for everything. Actually, multiple SaaS for the exact same problem! Even technology companies with expert engineering teams are choosing to use off-the-shelf components (now in the form of SaaS) instead of developing in-house. It makes complete sense to buy something that would cost 100x more to develop in-house.
Good communication is at the core of any incident management process, empowering stakeholders with the information they need to avoid lost productivity. Delivering the right message through the right channel to the right people across the enterprise is key – if you’re simply firefighting and communicating reactively, stakeholders will likely get frustrated.
StatusGator has a wide a variety of use cases: from education to help desk to IT and managed services and DevOps, too. All corners of an organization depend on cloud services and StatusGator gives you visibility into the status of all of your vendors. We’ve heard over and over from our DevOps users that alerts and notifications for their teams are already centralized into a single incident management platform such as OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or FireHydrant.
