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

A practical approach to on-call compensation

Asking engineers to be on-call is usually a tough sell. Think about it: if someone asked you to add even more to your already packed workload, that would be a difficult proposition to say yes to. And that’s before you mention that this work typically happens late into the day and even (some) sleepless nights. Companies need to have an on-call function to keep their services and products running smoothly—it’s practically a non-negotiable at this point.

What is Alert Fatigue in DevOps and How to Combat It With the Help of ilert

You may have a team chat where automatic alerts fall in great numbers daily. Although these alerts are meant to notify you of issues, they often go unnoticed as you scroll through dozens of them. When we talk about IT alerts, things are getting even more complicated because they include many technical details you must decipher. This is one of many simple examples of alert fatigue.

Enhancing Service Reliability: Uniting Rootly's Incident Management and Backstage's Software Catalog

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses aiming to deliver seamless user experiences. However, as the complexity of companies' environments grows, ensuring your services, infrastructure and applications are reliable and resilient to failure is challenging. It’s naive to think all services and infrastructure are operating 100% as designed.

Cloud Cost Incidents: Catching Cost Calamities on Time

Cloud cost management, also referred to as cloud cost optimization, is the process of managing and controlling a company’s spending on cloud services. This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as usage monitoring, resource optimization, and cost forecasting. The first step in managing cloud costs is to understand how cloud resources are being used. This involves tracking the usage of each service and identifying any trends or patterns.

Chaos To Control: Incident Management Process, Best Practices And Steps

Did you know, only 40% of companies with 100 employees or less have an Incident Response plan in place? Does that include you too? Even if it doesn't, this blog post is for you. Explore the Incident Management processes, best practices and steps so you can compare how your current IR process looks like and if you need to revamp it.
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The Pulse Of Technology: Why IT Monitoring Is Non-Negotiable In 2024

It's 2024 already, and to say that IT monitoring is indispensable for operational resilience wouldn't be wrong. The Global IT monitoring tool market size was USD 17150 million in 2022 and the market is projected to reach 60302.6 million by 2031 exhibiting a CAGR of 15%. All the more reason to understand why IT monitoring is an absolute non-negotiable. So, in this blog we'll know the significance of IT monitoring in face of the modern technological challenges.

Fireside Series: The secret to being a successful change agent in IT Operations

Are you tired of putting out the same fire day after day? You're not alone. Engineering leaders from every industry are working tirelessly to evolve their approach to incident management and IT Operations. Each installment of our Fireside Series is a conversation with one of your peers. We'll get under the hood of their team's strategy for building and operating some category-defining products. Then, we'll use their experiences to build and expand a roadmap for how you can lead your own company's operational evolution.

System Reliability Metrics: A Comparative Guide to MTTR, MTBF, MTTD, and MTTF

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, where systems and applications play a pivotal role in our daily lives, ensuring their reliability has become a critical concern for organizations. Unforeseen incidents and downtime can lead to significant financial losses, damage to reputation, and decreased customer satisfaction. In the realm of incident management and site reliability engineering (SRE), understanding and leveraging key reliability metrics is essential.

The Debrief: Why we killed our Slackbot and bought incident.io with Michael Cullum of Bud Financial

For financial services companies, good incident management is absolutely critical—maybe more so than in other industries. So, for Michael Cullum and his team at Bud Financial, the choice to build an incident response tool felt right for them in the moment. But very quickly, Michael and the team came face-to-face with the myriad limitations that come with building your own response tooling.