As new incidents emerge, there are often many unknowns about the size, severity, and cause of the problem. Sometimes it’s not clear if the problem is an incident at all. That’s where introducing a triage stage to your incident management process can help. In this post, we’ll look at the benefits of adding a triage layer to your incident management, and how Rootly’s Triage feature allows you to seamlessly transition from triage to real incident (or false alarm).

IT response teams find themselves battling against an overwhelming onslaught of incidents. Frustratingly long response times, challenges with prioritization, and the relentless pursuit of root cause are formidable adversaries that test even the most skilled teams. I remember customers’ electrifying anticipation with AI and automation a decade ago. They hoped AI could be used to instantly decode the business impact of incidents and automation to respond to incidents without human intervention.

Forrester Names PagerDuty a Leader in first-ever Process-Centric AIOps Wave From helping pioneer the DevOps movement to establishing best practices around service ownership to being the standard in incident response, PagerDuty has a long history of leadership. PagerDuty is honored to add to this list and now be recognized as a leader in the AIOps and Automation space by Forrester.

Most commonly, businesses take a reactive approach to incident management. After all, the concept of incident response seems inherently reactive. However, it is possible—and often necessary—to take more proactive measures. This entails identifying potential problems and taking steps to remediate them before they become incidents.

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, every organization must confront its fair share of incidents. Regardless of the sector or size, one common thread weaves through them all: the need for effective incident management. A crucial part of this management is incident escalation, a topic on which we've had many discussions with various companies.

The incident-io/core application uses a mixture of environment variables, config files and secrets stored in Google Secret Manager to configure the app. This is a reference guide to all the parts that make up this flow.

If you’re still unpacking the latest terminology from Gartner’s 2023 AIOps market update, you aren’t alone. Subject matter experts from Moogsoft recently joined thought leaders from TIAA and Windward Consulting for a debrief on the panel interview Accelerating Your AIOps Journey Webinar. Almost half of technology leaders looking to improve productivity and fuel greater collaboration are struggling to explain AIOps use cases, benefits, and value to other business leaders.

Defined severity levels quickly get responders and stakeholders on the same page on the impact of the incident, and they set expectations for the level of response effort — both of which help you fix the problem faster. But sometimes, for whatever reason, a severity level just doesn’t get set. Maybe there’s confusion around what severity level to use. Or maybe you have a low barrier to declaration and your responders just need a little nudge.