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The Definitive Guide to Better On-Call

On-Call rotations are essential to supporting 24/7 application availability. But too many companies slap together an ad-hoc process without ever considering the repercussions. In this guide, we'll explore the 7½ reasons better on-call makes a REAL difference for your company, and we'll throw in a few tips and tricks to help you along the way.

Determining Fair & Competitive On-Call Compensation

The key to choosing the best compensation plan is finding a solution that works well for your company but also recognizes the employees for their effort and time spent. If employees are well-cared for, they will, in turn, care about the business and contribute to its’ success. After choosing a method and confirming it abides by local laws, be sure to examine the following to confirm that compensation is competitive and fair and that your team can adequately share the load on-call requires.

Machine Learning in IT Operations: the Role of Transparency, Trust, and Control

In this Webinar, Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research, and Elik Eizenberg, CTO and Co-Founder at BigPanda, discuss IT Operations, Machine Learning and the importance of Transparency, Trust and Control so that IT Ops leaders and practitioners can choose the right tools to support their critical digital transformation initiatives.

Reduce Noise in Your DevOps Toolchain

In an ideal world, your DevOps toolchain would be highly automated for incident management and allow your teams to resolve issues at DevOps speed. An alert triggered by monitoring tools like Datadog or AWS Cloudwatch would notify on-call engineers, kick your collaboration tools into gear (ChatOps, StatusPage, etc), and automatically document the issue in ITSM and ticketing tools.

PagerDuty Drives Digital Operations for Atlassian Users

IT Operations, DevOps, and Developer teams count on PagerDuty’s 300+ integrations to power their end-to-end real-time digital operations, no matter which tool stack they use. Because PagerDuty’s customers span all sizes, industries, and digital maturity levels, our product team is constantly talking to customers about which tools they use for needs like communications, APM, and IT Service Management (ITSM).

Zapier Set Ups - Pulling Downtime Alerts into Zendesk

We currently integrate with a wide range of notification systems and applications to which we can send through our Up or Down alerts based on the health and status of your website on StatusCake. Sometimes though, it’s great to have these alerts coming through to a system that’s not classically used for notifications. Today we’ll take a look at how you can have your downtime alerts sent to the Zendesk Customer Service Software & Support Ticket System.