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Use ilert mobile app to take someone else's on-call shift

Use the ilert mobile app to receive push notifications about alerts and gain access to essential incident management features so that you can take immediate action from anywhere. The app also allows you to quickly take over your colleague's on-call shift while on the go. Check out the video to learn more about this feature.

The Show Must Go On - Incidentally Reliable with Piyush Verma (CTO at Last9)

Catch Piyush Verma, Co-Founder and CTO at Last9 in conversation with Ankur Rawal, Co-Founder and CTO at Zenduty — discussing what reliability means to the modern consumer, why SREs make excellent decision-makers, and the current state of observability. Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is an advanced incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.

Understanding Linux File System: A Comprehensive Guide to Common Directories

Welcome to an in-depth exploration of the Linux file system! In this comprehensive guide, we'll demystify the various directories found in a typical Linux distribution, explaining their purposes and functionalities. Whether you're a seasoned sysadmin or a curious newcomer, this article will enhance your understanding of the backbone of Linux's structure and operation.

SRE Metrics: Availability

Understanding SRE metrics and how they impact your platform's availability are fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering. How available is your website, service, or platform? What must you monitor and measure to ensure availability? How do you translate uptime into availability? This chart has numbers that every Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) should know.

A Practical Introduction to Incident Management Metrics

Tracking your incident management metrics is necessary for any intended optimizations within your organization. Whether your team is looking to align with the company’s business goals, to benchmark and elevate performance, to increase customer satisfaction, or more, scrutinizing these metrics is the way to go.

Navigating the IT Maze: A SIGNL4 Journey of Clarity and Efficiency

In the dynamic realm of IT, every alert is a crucial piece of information. As an IT technician, I often found myself lost in the complexity of third-party alerts, grappling with deep-level tech details that felt like a maze. I lost valuable time trying to decipher an alert and got frustrated over missing important details.

Reduce Alert Fatigue and Improve Your Kubernetes Monitoring

Alert fatigue is a state of exhaustion caused by receiving too many alerts. This can happen when the alerts are not actionable, are irrelevant or too frequent. Misconfigurations or configurations with the wrong assumptions or that lack Service-level objectives (SLOs) can have a dual impact, leading to alert fatigue and, more alarmingly, the potential of overlooking critical alerts We spoke with more than 200 teams using Prometheus Alertmanager. Many face alert fatigue from trivial, nonactionable alerts.

Alert payload standardization: Your secret to better AIOps alert correlation

Monitoring tools share alerts in a variety of formats, with inconsistent data points and crucial information missing. That leaves you and your team stuck in the middle, trying to analyze and act on incomplete or irrelevant alerts requiring lots of manual intervention, time, and energy to communicate and coordinate during incident response. Standardizing your alert payloads is a key starting point if you want to improve your alert correlation.

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.