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What's New: Updates to Runbook Automation, Event Intelligence,Partner Integrations, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty platform. The product team has been hard at work making updates from Event Intelligence, Runbook Automation, and Applications with Monitoring Tools, to PagerDuty and PagerDuty Community Events.

Reimagining Retail Incident Response for the Holidays

The holiday season is here, and global retailers are prepared for the biggest retail event of the year. The decrease in new COVID-19 cases, coupled with a rise in vaccination rates, provides a glimmer of hope for shoppers looking to spend for friends and family. Holiday spending is expected to break previous records this year, growing up to 10.5 percent over 2020.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample PagerDuty Alerting dashboard

Adam Kinniburgh is back with another Dashboard Fridays episode, this time joined by Ashley Thompson as they showcase this example PagerDuty Alerting dashboard. This dashboard gives an overview of alerting sent to PagerDuty from any source, even external sources like Pingdom.

Best Practices to implement in Incident Management

They are like 5 stages of an incident: 1. Assess impact 2. Inform customers (statuspage) 3. Identify the issue 4. Mitigate the issue 5. Resolve the incident Then there’s followup and further work. Also important to note that (2) should be ongoing as you progress. Updating the status page should be done within reasonable periods – e.g. every 15-20 mins unless you specify otherwise.

What can SREs do to make holiday season's peak traffic less chaotic?

Holiday season's peak traffic is the most challenging period for SREs and on-call engineers. In this blog, we have highlighted the things that SREs can do to make the holiday season less chaotic. The recently concluded Black Friday weekend could have potentially been the most challenging shift for on-call engineers working in the Retail or E-Commerce sector. Since such peak-traffic events push the system to the limits, engineering teams are engulfed in a lot of tension preparing for it.

December 2021 Update - On-duty board, Manual Signls and Azure Sentinel update

Our December update brings a ‘Who is on duty’ board displaying current team members on duty with contact information. In addition, we have simplified the manual sending of Signls and improved the integration with Azure Sentinel. As always, you can find all the details in this article.