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August 2022

See the big picture with the Service Dependency Graph

Understanding the impact and scope of an incident when degradation occurs is critical for returning your service online. This requires modeling the many downstream and upstream relationships between your services. Our new Service Dependency Graph provides a shortcut – a way to surface dependencies quickly, understand the relationship between services, and determine the scope or impact of an incident.

We've made it even easier to manage your FireHydrant configuration with Terraform

Many of our customers use FireHydrant’s verified Terraform provider to track configuration changes, ensure consistency, and automate repetitive configuration tasks. Back in March we streamlined our Terraform provider support for service catalog configuration. Today we are releasing extensive Terraform provider improvements for configuring runbooks, task lists, service dependencies, incident roles, and more.

To require or not require (fields): that is the question

Required fields have been a hot topic at FireHydrant. Choose too many (or the wrong ones), and you unnecessarily annoy your team during an incident or encourage sloppy data entry that someone has to come back and clean up manually. Don't use them at all and risk insufficient data to efficiently propel an incident toward resolution.