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

Fast track video series: Extracting alert data from emails using BigPanda

BigPanda's easy-to-use self-service Email Parser receives information in email form and converts the data into BigPanda alerts. This is ideal for monitoring tools and systems that do not support REST API, the email parser extracts alert data such as status and properties right from the email's subject or body without the need for custom code.

What Makes a Perfect Incident Management Checklist? We Asked the Experts!

The perfect incident management checklist doesn’t need to be a fantasy. In fact, it shouldn’t be! The perfect incident management checklist should cover several topics, be broken down into bite-size sections, and help team members quickly identify tasks that fall under their responsibility. We asked our experts what should be included in the perfect incident management checklist. Here are their answers.

Building Workflows, Part 1 - Core concepts and the Workflow Builder

At incident.io, we’re building tools to help people respond to incidents, often by automating their organisations’ process. Much of this is powered by our Workflows product, which customers can use to achieve things like: Workflows as a product feature are incredibly powerful, and we’re proud of the value they provide to our customers. Behind-the-scenes, though, building something like workflows can be difficult.

Building Workflows, Part 2 - the executor and evaluation

This is the second in a two part series on how we built our workflow engine, and continues from Building workflows (part 1). Having covered core workflow concepts and a deep-dive into the Workflow Builder in part one, this post describes the workflow executor, and concludes the series with an evaluation of the project against our goals.

Introducing Webforms - Involve end users directly into your Incident Management process

Over the years we’ve received requests from our customers for a feature that can enable their customers and their end users to create/ report incidents directly on Squadcast. To our valued customers - we heard you! We are excited to introduce Webforms to do exactly that. In the past, we’ve addressed the challenges pertaining to On-call processes and best practices that teams can implement.

What's difficult about problem detection? - Three Key Takeaways

Welcome to episode 4 of our webinar series, From Theory to Practice. Blameless’s Matt Davis and Kurt Andersen were joined by Joanna Mazgaj, Director of Production Support at Tala, and Laura Nolan, Principal Software Engineer at Stanza Systems. They tackled a tricky and often overlooked aspect of incident management: problem detection. ‍

How to drive better decision-making with reliability management

Almost every organization is going through digital transformation. According to IDC, direct digital transformation investment is growing globally at a compound annual growth rate of 15.5% and is expected to approach $6.8 trillion by 2023. Customers quickly embrace the benefits of a customer experience reshaped by technology. However, they have little patience when that technology doesn’t work as expected.

Managing Squadcast resources with our expanded Terraform provider

Hey folks! We’re excited to announce that we’ve vastly expanded the capabilities of our Terraform provider. Previously, our Terraform provider was limited to creating and managing services as a resource. We have now covered the entire spectrum of resources available on Squadcast right from creating and managing users, escalation policies and also managing SLO’s via our Terraform provider. What does that mean for you?