Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

February 2022

Putting the "Action" in Actionable Intelligence

AIOps combines machine learning and people to deliver technical outcomes in IT operations. The promise of this capability continues to drive new contenders to the market. AIOps has become a core messaging component for all the major event management players. Many have just rebranded their products to specifically highlight AIOps features. Emerging event management players have arrived and tried to also claim the AIOps space.

PagerDuty Receives Financial Services Competency From AWS

We are excited to announce that PagerDuty is now an approved AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. We’re looking forward to expanding our global reach and helping financial services organizations accelerate their cloud migration and digital acceleration journeys. This will allow us to further streamline and automate financial service companies’ digital operations while helping them reduce risk and manage compliance requirements.

Customer Service Ops - New Features Release

Over the last few years, our world has become increasingly digital, from streaming and shopping to work and health care. Customers want these digital experiences to be seamless. This has become a key priority for all businesses as well, as they depend on happy customers to drive sales and brand reputation. To ensure these seamless digital experiences, technology teams have doubled down on reliability, user experience, and building new features.

New Native Slack functionality from PagerDuty - Available Now

At PagerDuty we invest a significant part of our time listening to our customers. From what we have learned from those conversations we are adding a new set of features to our Slack Integration. These features will make leveraging PagerDuty from Slack even more seamless and allow Incident Responders to conduct their work without switching context, expediting response times, and ultimately maintaining high customer satisfaction.

The Math & Fun Behind Nesting Event Rules with Event Orchestration

PagerDuty Senior Product Manager Frank Emery joins us on Twitch to talk about Event Orchestration, a new feature in the PagerDuty Platform. We found in our data that 20% of incidents are resolved - by human responders - in under 5 minutes. Why are team members being interrupted for these alerts? Automation is a better answer. Event Orchestration utilizes powerful, flexible rules to turn alerts into automated activities so your team can keep working and avoid unnecessary interruptions!

SauceLabs & PagerDuty Notifications Channel for API Tests & Monitors

"APIs are the backbone of the apps and web services that run the world, yet most companies don’t have a true understanding of their functional uptime and reliability. Sauce Labs collects those insights by leveraging functional and integration tests as monitors. This provides a single source of truth for uptime and detailed reporting for when problems occur with functionality or performance. With PagerDuty, Sauce Labs' users gain granular control over notifications to ensure compliance with company policies while centralizing test and incident response processes among developers, testers, and product owners.

Now You can Invoke PagerDuty Rundeck Actions Within the PagerDuty Slack Integration

Last year, we released PagerDuty Rundeck Actions, a PagerDuty add-on product that connects responders to automated diagnostics and remediation for common problems directly in the PagerDuty incident response workflow. After working with our customers and listening to the community, we are excited to announce that PagerDuty Rundeck Actions now integrates with PagerDuty’s Slack integration.

Top tips to make Round Robin Scheduling successful for your team

You may have heard of Round Robin Scheduling before and thought to yourself, is this right for my team? Understanding how Round Robin Scheduling can be used and what teams it works best for is important when considering this method of on-call. Additionally, it comes with some pitfalls you’ll want to avoid, as well as best practices to adopt. In this blog post, we’ll share everything you need to know about Round Robin Scheduling within PagerDuty and how to get started.