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Chapter Nine: In Which Dinesh Experiments with Chaos Engineering

Another day, another drama! This one, though, is very much of my own making. I have been wanting to try my hand at a bit of chaos engineering for some time now but C&Js just hasn’t been ready. Sarah’s been up for it too, though, at Animapanions. And now that our CIO, Charlie has seen MTTR drop across every single technology team, thanks to the rollout of Moogsoft and the new incident management system (kudos to James), it’s pilot day.

Most frequently asked questions surrounding Google's Cloud Operations Sandbox

Cloud Operations Sandbox serves as a simulation tool for budding SREs to learn the best practices from Google and apply them to real cloud services. In this blog, we have compiled a list of FAQs surrounding the use of Google's Cloud Operations Sandbox. The Google SRE sandbox provides an easy way to get started with the core skills you need to become a SRE.

Dun & Bradstreet Reduces Mean Time to Resolution with xMatters

How does a business continue to improve its incident management processes, when it’s already using some of the best tools on the market? Join Nick Romanelli, Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Dun & Bradstreet, and Zoe Na, Customer Success Manager at xMatters, as they discuss how Dun & Bradstreet has been able to use xMatters to reduce MTTR and streamline major incident management. With their innovative use of Flow Designer, Dun & Bradstreet have created unique workflows that you’re going to want to know about!

Hear From Product Automation & AIOps Lightning Talk

Learn about what's new with PagerDuty Runbook Automation & AIOps from the Summit 2021 Launch. Our Product team shares how you can benefit from our latest updates and enhancements and enjoy demos that were recorded live from Summit 2021 featuring PagerDuty Runbook Actions, Customer Change Event Transformer, Change Correlation, and Outlier Incident.

Hear From Product Incident Response Lightning Talk

Learn about what's new with PagerDuty Incident Response from the Summit 2021 Launch. Our Product team shares how you can benefit from our latest updates and enhancements and enjoy demos that were recorded live from Summit 2021 featuring PagerDuty Incident Context in MS Teams, Slack Insights previews, Stakeholder Updates in ChatOps, Priority-based Business Service Subscription, Past Incidents on Mobile, Add Responder Notification Rules.

Three Key Takeaways from The State of Digital Operations Report 2021

2020 heralded a year of increased complexity and customer demands, which isn’t going away. In this new normal, organizations will still be tasked with keeping up this break-neck pace. So, what did digital operations look like in 2020 compared to 2019?

7 Ways Your Status Page Can Save You

Having a Status Page is like having a dog. A dog alerts you to an incident; sudden noise, approaching neighbor, squirrel… A dog sounds the alarm on an intruder. A dog even alerts you to maintenance by barking at every handyman, garbage truck, and gardener within sight. As a dog fetches the same stick over and over, so does a status page fetch the attention of your users – especially during a live incident – with each browser refresh they wait for the status to change.

What's New: Introducing Next-Gen ChatOps With PagerDuty and Slack

In this new world of digital everything, new application versions usually mean that you’re going to get bigger and better features, more capabilities, and an uplifted user experience, right? When I talk to customers, many can’t wait to upgrade the PagerDuty integrations that they depend on to test new features. If you’re a PagerDuty for Slack user, the next-generation version of our Slack integration will certainly be an exciting development.

Getting over on-call anxiety

You've joined a company, or worked there a little while, and you've just now realised that you'll have to do on-call. You feel like you don't know much about how everything fits together, how are you supposed to fix it at 2am when you get paged? So you're a little nervous. Understandable. Here are a few tips to help you become less nervous.