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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

APImetrics + Squadcast: Routing Alerts Made Easy

APImetrics is an API Compliance, Monitoring and Security solution that lets you make and run API calls or sequences of API calls (workflows) from external, remote cloud locations using exactly the same security configurations as a typical end user would use. If you use APImetrics for API calling requirements, you can integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end incident response tool, to route detailed alerts from APImetrics to the right users in Squadcast.

SRE Maturity Model: How Do You Assess Your Team?

How do you evaluate your SRE team’s progress in implementing SRE? We discuss the key SRE indicators for evaluating your team’s progress in the SRE maturity model. ‍ What is the SRE maturity model? ‍ The SRE maturity model is a way of judging how far you are in implementing SRE principles. It is a method used by teams to understand where they ought to implement more SRE best practices to reach greater SRE maturity.

"Just get on with it!" - The Horrors of Task Prioritization

Learn how to prioritize tasks, get stuff moving by performing non-blocker tasks first, effectively create postmortems, perform RCAs faster and not have an overburdened high priority(P0) dashboard. The below article should help you plan your product/feature launch faster without having to compromise on the reliability of the existing services.

Doing More with Less: Building Greater Operational Efficiency with PagerDuty

How many of us can say with confidence that we know a tool inside and out? If you’re like most, you probably use just a small fraction of a product’s features. When it comes to feature-rich software like Microsoft Word or Excel, it’s a safe bet that most users are aware of less than half of the features, and use even less on a regular basis. And the longer we’ve been using a piece of software, the more likely we fall into this trap of feature underutilization.

What is an Incident Commander in ITSM?

Incident Commanders play a crucial role in the successful operation of IT service management (ITSM) teams. By applying best practices, they can ensure that incidents are handled quickly and efficiently, so that downtime for end users is kept to a minimum. ‍ This article provides an overview of the requirements for an effective Incident Commander in ITSM. It discusses the skills and competencies needed for effective incident management, and highlights some best practices for this role.

Kubernetes Lens: Improving Operational Awareness of Kubernetes Clusters

Kubernetes Lens is an integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to connect and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters on Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms. It is an intuitive graphical interface that allows users to deploy and manage clusters directly from the console. It provides dashboards that display key metrics and insights into everything running on a cluster, including deployments, configurations, networking, storage, and access control.

How to design an effective incident on-call program

If anyone on your team has paged a colleague in the middle of the night, your DevOps team has an incident on-call program. Whether that team member knew who to page, and felt comfortable sending the page, is indicative of your on-call program's effectiveness. Join Thai Wood, founder of Resilience Roundup, and Matt Davis, SRE Advocate at Blameless, to discuss: This webinar was recorded live on December 13, 2022.