Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

A critical part of managing modern software development is setting up and running an on-call rotation. But that often involves significant toil, in part because many of the existing tools are cumbersome and not developer-friendly. That’s why we’re excited to announce Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for devs.

Introducing SL1 Duomo. Designed to turbocharge your digital transformation journey to business growth—with the final destination of automated operations.

Today we are happy to announce, that Icinga for Windows v1.7.0 has been released! While this release includes lots of bugfixes for the Framework itself including the basic plugins, our main goal was to increase usability and make access for developers a lot easier.

The NiCE Linux PowerPC Management Pack 1.20 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced IBM PowerPC on Linux monitoring. It supports Linux PowerPC administrators in centralized health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.

Imagine a world where every team member could directly contribute to software together. We’re living in that world now. With more than 10 million daily active users, Slack is one of the most ‘lived in’ collaboration tools used by software development teams around the world.

This year at.conf21, we announced exciting new features in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, our real-time streaming metrics-based monitoring platform. Our innovations help SRE and cloud operations teams detect and resolve performance issues even more quickly and efficiently while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance posture. In this roundup blog, we cover, in detail, all the product features we unveiled at.conf21.

In July and August of this year, I revealed to our community for the first time that Bitbucket Cloud was engaged in a project to migrate to a new platform. As I wrote in July: I am thrilled to announce that, in late August, we officially completed this project and Bitbucket Cloud has been operating in AWS, data center-free for over 2 months. So how does this benefit our customers? This is one of the most technically complex projects we've ever tackled as a team.

Our November update introduces new team settings and, along with them, entirely new options for escalating Signls. This will allow you to make your incident response even more reliable. One application is to create a ‘managers on duty’ teams with full duty scheduling capabilities and escalate missed Signls to such 2nd level response team. As always, you can find all the details in this article.

We are excited to announce the launch of the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant (BCMA). The BCMA is an Atlassian-supported app built to help Bitbucket Server customers automate the migration process from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Cloud. If you are considering a move to Bitbucket Cloud, this is the easiest way to get started. Download the BCMA from the Atlassian marketplace.

Get ready for something exciting coming your way! xMatters latest release, Ninja, is on the horizon and will be available in production next week. Named in honor of the classic video game Ninja Gaiden, this latest batch of xMatters updates is sure to pack a punch — pun definitely intended. This release rolls out exciting new features like an intelligent Service Dependencies map and integrations with the broader Everbridge platform, among many other things.