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How to prepare for, deal with, and recover from IT outages

The average cost of an IT outage is $12,900—per minute. And when it comes to a “significant outage,” organizations reported the average overall cost was a whopping $1,477,800. On the latest podcast episode of That’s great IT, I spoke with Scott Lee, AVP for infrastructure and ITOps at Arch Mortgage Insurance Company, part of Arch Capital Group, about how organizations can best navigate IT outages.

Global Event Orchestrations Demo

Frank Emery, Principal Product Manager, joins the Twitch stream to talk about and show off enhancements to Event Orchestration, featuring the new Global Event Orchestrations feature. Global orchestration rules will enable your organization to suppress, annotate, and customize events for all services in your PagerDuty account. This new feature is available to all accounts with AIOps plans.

Admin Panel - Custom User Properties - xMatters Support

You can use custom user properties to store additional information about people your organization. You can use this information to sort, find, and organize users, as well as to notify teams based on particular criteria, like a specific skill set. Custom user properties are configured in the Admin or Settings menu and appear as optional or required fields in each user's profile.

The why and how behind running incident response game days

In any high pressure situation, the key to fast action is preparedness. And that’s true when it comes to incidents, too. Documenting and training your team on your incident response processes is essential to ensuring a coordinated and efficient response effort. And training sessions, or game days, as they’re sometimes called, are one way to get everyone up to speed.

Introducing PagerDuty AIOps: Harnessing the Power of AI to Transform Modern Operations for the Enterprise

Today, PagerDuty launched a new AIOps solution to leverage the power of AI, provide built-in automation and build on the company’s foundation data model to transform modern operations for the enterprise. PagerDuty has long suppressed noise to help distributed development teams focus.