Downtime—especially in customer-facing services—can cost businesses thousands of dollars an hour and incalculable customer trust. No company can afford to pay this price. To reduce downtime, software engineering teams must act quickly and decisively. But that’s easier said than done. With Lightstep® Incident Response, generally available from ServiceNow today, we're unlocking speed, agility, and productivity for your engineers and your software-powered business.
There’s no one-size-fits-all incident response process. Depending on your organisation’s shape and size, you’ll have different requirements and priorities. But the same three pillars form the core of any good process, whether it’s for the largest e-commerce giant or a scrappy SaaS startup.
What makes an engineering team? Communication, collaboration, process, order, and common goals. Otherwise, they would just be a bunch of engineers. The same is true of their tools. Connectivity and process turn a bunch of tools into a DevOps toolchain. If you need a DevOp toolchain, you can use it to easily build an incident response process.
“I have been doing this for 20+ years and have been using literally every product out there. Derdack is unique at how issues are addressed and communicated out because of the seamless integration, maturity and flexibility of the platform. Working with Derdack has been a game changer for us and helped us to do more with less.” Jeff Postolowski, Director Information Technology Services, Bridgeport Public School District
When a service is down, a system is failing, or a security issue is in the midst of occurring, organizations need a solid incident response process to get up and running again. Incident response isn't just for high severity, lights out incidents either; if you've rebooted your computer to fix a problem, you've been an incident responder yourself! Incidents happen, and any successful organization knows that instead of pretending that one day nothing will ever go wrong, it's far more useful to develop a comprehensive operational response plan. And to do so, you need to know what incident response is! Let's get into it.