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

Get to the Root (Cause Analysis) in 5 Easy Steps

What is one of the first things you should do when you are assigned an incident via PagerDuty? If you immediately thought “Acknowledge!” you are not wrong, but after that, it’s all about resolving the issue as quickly and painlessly as possible. The first step to resolution is to investigate what caused the incident in the first place so you can easily get a fix in place.

Understanding Cloud Services: IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS

Cloud services have skyrocketed in popularity in the past few years, providing a vast array of resources as well as a cost-effective path for the migration from on-premises servers to the cloud. In fact, cloud services are handling all the computing needs of many businesses. It’s very likely you’re already using cloud services and will continue to use more as time goes on.

Using Squadcast's SLO Tracker | Error Budget | Setting up SLOs and configuring SLIs | Squadcast

With Squadcast, you can define and monitor Service Level Objects for your services. SLOs allow you to define and enforce an agreement between two parties regarding the delivery of a given service. A Service Level Objective (SLO) is a reliability target, measured by a Service Level Indicator (SLI), and sometimes serves as a safeguard for a Service Level Agreement (SLA). SLOs represent customer happiness and guide the development team’s velocity.

Interrupts in software teams: using unplanned work to your advantage

Interrupts are often seen as a problem that eats away at your team’s productivity, and gets in the way of shipping important things for your customers. It’s often consciously accrued from the tech debt we accept to ship features sooner. However when a team doesn’t have a good strategy for dealing with the consequences of those decisions, the pain is felt much more acutely and much sooner.

PagerDuty Debuts as a Leader in 2022 GigaOm Radar for AIOps Solutions

Every year there is a surprise in a Radar report. While it won’t be a surprise to our thousands of customers who are seeing tremendous benefits with us, PagerDuty is excited to be named a Leader in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for AIOps Solutions. GigaOm uses extensive criteria to evaluate vendors in their Radar.