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Incident Management

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

Better Incidents Winter Bonfire: Inside On-Call

Engineers are bombarded with pages left and right. There's uncertainty about how to escalate. A constant blur exists between what's urgent and what can wait. This never-ending ping-pong game takes a toll. Burnout creeps in, and your engineering culture has taken a nose dive before you know it.

Automated incident response in ITOps: Here's everything you need to know

If you’re like most IT leaders, you realize that automating repetitive, low-level incident response actions is key to unlocking enhanced workforce productivity, improved IT services, minimized downtime, better user experiences, cost savings, and the freedom to focus on innovation. Yet you don’t know where to start – or maybe aren’t sure of the best approach.

BookMyShow's Cinematic Product Journey - Incidentally Reliable Podcast with Viraj Patel

Grab some popcorn and catch Viraj talk about his experiences and BookMyShow's journey from its inception in the early 2000s to the entertainment behemoth it is today, their stints innovating at the forefront of the mobile and e-commerce revolutions, and their harmony with reliability engineering in the colourful, ever-changing yet challenging world of movies and online ticketing. Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.

LLM Monitoring and Observability

Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence models designed to comprehend and generate human-like language. With millions or even billions of [parameters, these models, like GPT-3, excel in natural language processing, understanding context, and generating coherent and contextually relevant text across various applications.

The Everbridge Risk Intelligence Monitoring Center (RIMC) real-time alerting

The Everbridge Risk Intelligence Monitoring Center (RIMC) analyzes thousands of trustworthy, vetted, and hyper-local data sources – across over 100 risk categories – using machine-learning and AI technology, complemented by an experienced team of global risk analysts. The RIMC team’s real-time alerting streamlines your organization’s ability to monitor and analyze worldwide incidents and events, dramatically increasing your ability to respond to risks that threaten your people, organization, supply chain, and more.

Lessons in Incident Response I Learned While Waiting Tables

Before I stumbled into the tech industry (a story for another day), I spent several years in the customer service world as a server and front-of-house manager in restaurants. It was in these jobs that I first honed some critical skills that would later lead me on the path to incident response.

Getting started with IT operations automation

Tech companies face a daunting challenge: a staggering 90% of their IT teams are stuck doing mundane, repetitive tasks, leaving only 10% to focus on strategic innovation. Companies know that automation is the solution to these repetitive, low-level incident response actions; however, many need support to begin automating.

The ultimate guide to incident management KPIs and metrics

IT incident management aims to swiftly identify, address, and resolve IT disruptions to restore normal service operations. Tracking IT incident management key performance indicators (KPIs) is a vital step toward minimizing disruptions for customers and users. But there are several different KPI and metrics choices, and it’s not easy to identify the right ones that can drive meaningful improvements in incident management.