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Alert Fatigue and Your Health

As an on-call engineer, you might deal with the day-in, day-out occurrence of alerts. These alerts may come from your alerting provider (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc.), Slack notifications telling you the site is down, or the ever concerning text message "Hey, is the site down?". These alerts elicit reactions that range from "shit" to "again?" and in many cases, both.

IT Trends You Don't Want to Miss

The COVID pandemic has redefined the workplace and accelerated the process of digitization for many. Organizations are migrating to systems that are flexible, distributed and resilient. Per Gartner, IT spending will reach $3.9 trillion worldwide in 2021. IT teams will be channeling investments into enterprise software as remote work becomes essential. Systems that support remote work will see a growth of 8.8 percent this year.

Why we went passwordless on our new product

Passwords are dying. The cost of creating and maintaining passwords is becoming untenable. Which can be seen in the rise of users logging in with social products and developers outsourcing their pain to Auth0 and the likes. We decided to sidestep the password based authentication and went passwordless on our new product. Read on to see how you can go passwordless too.

Using OnPage to Deliver Exceptional Customer Support

The OnPage Customer Support team consists of knowledgeable, friendly technicians that offer 24/7 assistance. Support recognizes the importance of client relationships and always aims to achieve maximum customer satisfaction. The OnPage incident management system is at the center of Support’s quality service delivery. OnPage triggers instant, critical mobile alerts to technicians whenever customer-initiated tickets are created.

Introducing Incident Timer

We’re excited to announce Incident Timer - a “days without an incident” timer for software teams to keep track of major engineering incidents. As the people behind Spike.sh, we keep discussing how to build a culture of reliability with our customers. We loved the idea of safety/accident timers in factories which kept track of major accidents. It's a simple and elegant way to keep safety on everybody’s minds.

What is DevOps?

What is DevOps? DevOps is a term for a cluster of concepts that has become a movement, “a cross-disciplinary practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating, rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” (Jez Humble) The definition of DevOps is not agreed upon by everyone because of the complex processes attached to the term, however, the benefits to teams are universally agreed upon.

Accelerate your logs investigations with Watchdog Insights

If you’re investigating an incident, every minute means degraded performance or even downtime for customers. The causes of an issue often come from parts of your systems and applications that you would not think to check, and the sooner you can bring these to light, the better.

6 incident management hacks to implement using ServiceDesk Plus

Ever wondered how enterprises like Zoho, with over 50 SaaS applications and more than 180,000 customers, handle the spectrum of IT incidents they face? Download this free e-book now to get an insider look into the incident response and management processes that Zoho has perfected over the years.

6 incident management hacks to implement using ServiceDesk Plus Cloud

Ever wondered how enterprises like Zoho, with over 50 SaaS applications and more than 180,000 customers, handle the spectrum of IT incidents they face? Download this free e-book now to get an insider look into the incident response and management processes that Zoho has perfected over the years.