The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.
When our CEO and co-founder Tomer Levy delivered his “Observability is Broken” presentation at last year’s AWS re:Invent, he highlighted numerous challenges faced by today’s organizations as they seek to advance their observability practices. Of the six individual points that he noted, two specifically dealt with the current shortage of available engineering expertise, with another two focused on data overload.
Although the causes and solutions for incidents vary widely, most incidents follow a similar timeline from declaration to resolution. We call the period of time it takes to move from one phase or milestone of an incident to the next cycle time.
The SLA definition is - An SLA is a written contract outlining quantifiable service quality standards between a service provider and a client. Typically, it includes response times, uptime, and error reporting.
The Uptime Institute recently released its Annual Outage Analysis 2023 report. Overall, the report highlights the increasing costs, frequency, and duration of outages, the prominent role of cloud and digital services in outages, the shortcomings of service providers, and the need to address human error and management failures. It also underscores the ongoing challenges of handling failures in complex distributed architectures.