Atlassian’s Opsgenie is a leading incident alerting and on-call management tool, helping business manage their incident response and resolution needs. As part of the Atlassian product suite, Opsgenie has become one of the most popular solutions in the industry. But it’s not the only incident management tool on the market, and it’s vital when looking at Opsgenie and its alternatives, you do a deep dive into its features and abilities.

xMatters is part technology, part service reliability, and a little bit of magic. If you’ve spent time on the xMatters website, you’ll likely have seen a number of valuable use cases for the platform—it can alert SREs when there’s a website outage, it can accelerate product development for DevOps teams, it can manage on-call schedules and alerts for support teams.

Splunk On-Call (Formerly VictorOps) is a popular incident response and on-call management platform that allows engineering and operations teams to collaborate with ease and resolve issues faster. As part of the Splunk Observability Suite, Splunk On-Call is combined with related products to achieve the goal of bringing monitoring, troubleshooting, and investigation, into a single, comprehensive view — simplifying the process from incident detection to resolution.

When was the last time you read a good book? How about the last time you listened to an interesting podcast? For many, the latter is likely the more popular pastime. With routines disrupted and people housebound, podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown.