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

IT Alerting - what is this?

In today’s digital world, IT is not a ‘nice-to-have’ but the backbone of every company. Streamlined IT operations are therefore essential for success and even survival. However, technical faults and failures are unavoidable. This is where IT alerting comes into play – a crucial component of IT service management that helps to identify and resolve problems quickly.

Three benefits of AI-Powered Incident Management

Today, every enterprise is digital. Regardless of industry, every business must incorporate digital technologies and strategies into its operations to remain competitive. Maintaining reliable IT infrastructures and digital services while minimizing downtime due to unplanned outages is critical to business success.

The Real Beauty of Business: Beyond the Surface

One of the most frequent questions I receive from customers is, “What are the best practices to represent my services in PagerDuty?” This question is not easy to answer, but there is a general consensus that the representation needs to be both accurate and visually appealing. This idea got me thinking about our many customers in the beauty and fashion industry.

What's New: OnPage Unveils Multiple Account Login

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of OnPage’s new Multiple Account Login feature. Designed to simplify critical communication workflows and safeguard data security for users working across multiple organizations, this functionality allows them to switch effortlessly between OnPage accounts without the need for repeated logins. Each OnPage account remains securely independent, ensuring that communication is organization-specific and private.

Introducing Round Robin for Signals Escalation Policies: More Flexibility, Control, and Balance

At FireHydrant, we know that alert management is about more than just getting notifications to the right people — it’s about reducing stress and fatigue, balancing workloads, and empowering your team to respond with confidence. That’s why we’re excited to unveil Round Robin for Signals Escalation Policies, a feature designed to make alert escalations smarter, fairer, and more team-friendly by allowing you to automate the sequential assignment of new alerts.

Automate Fast & Win: 11 Event-Driven Automation Tasks for Enterprise DevOps Teams

Event-driven automation is a powerful approach to managing enterprise IT environments, allowing systems to automatically react to enterprise events (Observability / Monitoring / Security / Social / Machine) and reducing or removing the need for manual intervention. This post discusses 11 common automation tasks that are ideal for enterprise DevOps teams looking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce downtime, and ensure business continuity. Struggling with ideas for where to start?

AIOps for DevOps: Enhancing Collaboration and Efficiency

More than ever, DevOps teams are constantly tasked with improving collaboration, accelerating software development, and ensuring smooth operations. However, traditional monitoring and alerting methods, often called a “black box approach,” offer limited insight into system performance. As a result, teams rely on reactive approaches, only responding to incidents after they occur without prior planning or strategy.

How To Decide Between Hosting Your Own Status Page Versus Using a Managed One

A status page forms a key part of your incident communication strategy. When it comes to setting up a status page, you have two options: We will examine the pros and cons of each option along these dimensions: For 1, if you choose a self-managed, open-source or custom solution, it's in your control. For a managed solution, you are limited by the provider's feature set. For 2, if you choose a self-managed solution, your team is responsible for the quality of the service.