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

The Importance of Next-Gen 911 Technology for Emergency Dispatchers

There has been a tremendous amount of change around public safety over the last few years, especially regarding 911. Keeping up with Next-Generation 911 technology (NG911) and the wealth of information can certainly be overwhelming. To make matters worse, emergency callers are more mobile than ever before.

Custom Reliability Insights Reports: Follow Up Action Items

Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.

Blameless Reliability Insights: FUA (Follow Up Action) Statuses

Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.

Blameless Reliability Insights: How to Build Custom Reports

Engineering teams use the Reliability Insights feature in Blameless to understand reliability in a holistic way. In addition to tracking incident data, you can keep a pulse on how well teams and workflows are operating. For example, some of the best ways to maximize value from Reliability Insights is to build reports that reflect how your team stays on task, communicates, and assigns responsibilities. In this series, we'll walk you through the most common reports we see reliability teams using and referring to regularly.

What I learned from leading my first incident

A few weeks ago we had a major incident. We were releasing our Practical Guide to Incident Management, and after posting about it online an incident.io employee noticed that the page wasn’t loading. Just to set the scene, I’ve been at incident.io for 3 months and don’t have any experience of incidents in my previous role. When the team got paged I expected this to be one of those “follow along and learn how the wizards work their magic” exercises.

AlertOps is in the ConnectWise's 2022 PitchIT Accelerator Program!

PitchIT is a competition for MSP innovators. The program is designed to showcase potential offerings that could be built or integrated into the ConnectWise platforms. It’s a 16-week accelerator program where AlertOps and the other participants will go through a rigorous business assessment, gain coaching from industry experts, earn placement on the ConnectWise marketplace, engage in co-marketing and more.