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Incidents can have a massive impact on your operations, negatively affecting customers, employees, and stakeholders. Preparing in advance is the best way to restore normal service operations as quickly as possible.

We have released another update for Enterprise Alert 9 (version 9.2) which enhances the flood protection mechanism. This will help you to setup scenarios where you do not want the flood protection to be active for every notification channel. Read all details in this article.

When a cyber incident hits, there are certain questions that are asked right away almost every time...

With only a few days left of 2021, we all know what that means: making New Year’s resolutions. While some love the tradition of laying out their goals for the coming 12 months, others loathe it with a passion. And with approximately 80% of people failing to achieve their resolutions, it’s easy to see why there’s so much resentment towards this common habit. At xMatters, we plan to—and often do—beat those odds.

2021 has been an eye-opening year for both businesses and consumers who use popular websites and applications. We have all seen notable increases in the frequency and severity of outages as dependency on internet infrastructure grows – with no signs of slowing down. With our reliance on automation and connectivity expected to increase in 2022 – let’s review some of the top internet outages and website downtime incidents of 2021.

With the AlertOps ServiceNow integration, you can use automatic escalations for on-call schedules and create custom escalations. Automatically escalate to a level 2 or level 3 team and notify management and stakeholders. Set each escalation to use the notification channel you choose (email, voice, SMS, mobile app, and chat). Set your escalations to trigger reminders when a response SLA or a resolution SLA has been breached or is approaching the deadline.

A couple of weeks ago our partner Rok Ponikvar from S&T contacted me about an issue one of his customers faced. His customer complained that Enterprise Alert is not alerting on current issues and even if he creates a test ticket in his OBM system no alert goes out. After a little back and forth we concluded that Enterprise Alert is still processing historic data from an Event Storm in OBM earlier that day.