Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Introducing The PagerDuty Postmortem Guide

Your team had been fighting this major incident for hours, but your investigation was hitting one dead end after another. Finally, you managed to isolate the problem and your graphs started to improve. When all systems went back to normal, everyone let out a collective sigh of relief, shut down the response call, and went back to bed, never to think of this incident again. Or so you thought.

Video AMA: Ana Medina

Ana is currently working as a Chaos Engineer at Gremlin 10, helping companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. She last worked at Uber where she was an engineer on the SRE and Infrastructure teams specifically focusing on chaos engineering and cloud computing. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina 11 mostly about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.

January 2019 Product Update: New Integrations & APIs

To kick off the year, we’re launching a monthly blog series to share new product announcements on an ongoing basis. This month, we’re excited to announce several new integrations, as well as the new global events rule API that empowers admins and developers to easily manage event rules at scale. (Be sure to also check out our platform release notes to stay up-to-date on what’s new.)

The Competitive Advantage Of Teamwork

Have you ever worked on a team where it was a challenge to give constructive feedback or confidently share ideas? At PagerDuty Summit 2018, Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,1 spoke about the importance of encouraging a culture of teamwork, and the role trust and vulnerability play in creating that culture.

The Cost of Operational Immaturity

Digital operational maturity is defined as an organization’s effectiveness at real-time work and ability to focus on performance metrics that improve as the organization becomes more adept at responding to incidents. Based on extensive research and nine years of industry data, in conjunction with a survey of 600+ respondents from across industries, PagerDuty developed a model that identified the four following levels of operational maturity.

SecOps Is Getting Real (Time)

Companies migrating to the cloud need to ensure they have a strong security posture and can meet compliance requirements. Along with ensuring compliance, companies also are faced with the challenge of tying together multiple security tools that generate a high volume of event data across disparate interfaces and platforms. To help address this challenge, a new security service was introduced at AWS re:Invent 2018: AWS Security Hub.

At the Center of Real-Time Operations: Using PagerDuty's new Atlassian Integrations

Over 3,000 Atlassian users count on PagerDuty’s 300+ integrations to power their end-to-end real-time digital operations—and we’re excited to launch a comprehensive set of integrations for the Atlassian suite, which allows Atlassian users to add PagerDuty’s real-time digital operations capabilities to their everyday work.

IBM & PagerDuty: Driving Real-Time Operations Excellence

PagerDuty has been in the business of real-time work for almost a decade, and we’ve developed a maturity model that complements DevOps benchmarks and research such as the DORA State of DevOps report. The model uniquely focuses on real operational practices implemented by best-in-class organizations, including key criteria for success across the domains of culture, knowledge sharing, customer orientation, and technology.