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

What is alert fatigue?

Alert fatigue is a serious issue that affects numerous professions, e.g. in IT or healthcare. It can lead to neglecting critical events and delaying response times. Responders need to continuously monitor their systems and applications to avert possible downtime and keep operations running smoothly. However a high number of incoming alerts inundating these teams can make them less responsive. The ramifications of such disregard can severely affect the efficiency and dependability of response teams.

The Debrief: How we built a "game changing" AI assistant feature

Imagine an AI assistant that could automatically surface a whole host of useful incident response data points with just a prompt. Well, you won't need to imagine for much longer. That's exactly what we built in Assistant, one of our newest features powered by AI. In this episode, you'll hear from Charlie, the project lead for Assistant, to get a peek behind this game-changing product. You'll hear him chat about.

5 Hidden Costs of Over-Sensitive Monitoring Systems in Incident Management

Monitoring systems are invaluable for detecting incidents before they spiral into catastrophes. However, there's a hidden danger lurking within even the most robust monitoring setups: false alarms. When systems are overly sensitive, they raise alerts for incidents that don't actually exist. While this may seem harmless on the surface, hyper-sensitive monitoring can quietly drain time, money, and morale in ways that only become apparent over time.

New Features: AI Help for On-call Schedules, Event Explorer, and Revamped Status Page Designs

We're thrilled to announce the latest enhancements to ilert AI in our most recent update. For those eager to dive into AI functionalities firsthand, we invite you to reach out to us at [email protected]. We'd be more than happy to welcome you into our Beta program. Moreover, we always appreciate your input on the ilert roadmap and look forward to hearing your innovative feature suggestions. Now, let's delve into the exciting new updates!

The Debrief: Making incidents less painful with Kerim Satirli of HashiCorp & Lawrence Jones of incident.io

For a lot of teams, incident management can be a bit of a headache. It's stressful. It's not optimized. The whole process can feel like it's being held together with tape. Worst of all? Responders are the ones feeling the brunt of it. But in reality, your customers are, too. Think about it: But honestly, the situation doesn't even have to be so dire. Things can be, generally speaking, totally fine.

AWS Billing & Alerts on Slack

Want to get your Cloud Bill Report on Slack? Want to get alerted when your AWS bill exceeds amount? Want to know your team-wise resources cost on Slack? With Pagerly Cloud Cost App, get your Cloud Reports within Slack. Set your team slack channel, Frequency and Alert threshold. For AWS, we use AWS STS Temporary Role to read your AWS bill. You can also setup team tags to get team wise reports.

Navigating the Waters of System Performance: A Deep Dive into a Recent Incident

In digital transactions, even the slightest hiccup can ripple through the system, causing significant disruptions. Our recent encounter with an unexpected system slowdown and a noticeable drop in transaction success rates is a testament to the intricate balance required to maintain seamless operations. This post aims to shed light on the incident, our findings, and the measures we’ve taken to fortify our system against future disturbances.

Evaluate, Examine , Enact your Alerts with Pagerly

Are you looking to differentiate Alerts from Noise? Are you looking to reduce your Alerts counts? With Pagerly , now annotate all your alerts as Noise or evaluate. Evaluate, Examine , Enact your Alerts with Pagerly Annotate if the alert is known to you or if requires any Action. Add remarks and context for handovers. Add action items for tracking tasks on the Alert Whether your runbook is present or not, tag all information in the alert.

Application Migration: 5 Things that Can Go Wrong

Application migration is the process of moving an application from one environment to another. For example, you may choose to migrate an application from an on-premises enterprise server to a cloud provider’s environment, or from one cloud environment to another. The aim is typically to improve the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the application. Application migration is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution.