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Incident Management Team: Roles, Structure & Best Practices

Businesses must always be prepared to handle unexpected disruptions. Whether it's a cybersecurity breach, a system outage, or a natural disaster, an efficient Incident Management Team is crucial for minimizing damage and restoring normal operations quickly. This specialized team ensures that incidents are identified, assessed, and resolved in a structured and efficient manner, safeguarding business continuity and customer trust.

The Importance of Automated Incident Notification for Cybersecurity Teams

In today’s digital landscape, cybersecurity threats are evolving at an unprecedented rate. Organizations must be prepared to detect and respond to incidents swiftly to mitigate potential damage. One of the most critical components of an effective incident response strategy is an automated incident notification system like OnPage. Such systems ensure that on-call cybersecurity teams receive alerts in real-time, enabling them to take immediate action.

Emergency notification software

During an emergency, swift delivery of critical information is key to successfully managing a crisis. Unfortunately, when teams don’t employ effective emergency notification software, response times can be significantly delayed. That’s why choosing the best emergency notification system software for your team ultimately ensures that notifications are always delivered promptly to ensure the protection of lives and valuables.

Why OnPage Outperforms Epic Secure Chat for Critical Communication

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) like Epic are undoubtedly pivotal to modern healthcare. With their intuitive interfaces and deeply integrated clinical decision support systems, Epic has become a cornerstone in patient care. But when it comes to communication, particularly for urgent and critical workflows, Epic Secure Chat often leaves healthcare providers searching for alternatives. At OnPage, we’ve built a platform specifically designed to meet the nuanced demands of healthcare communication.

APAC Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - February 2025

Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Automating with Rundeck for Smarter Operations Jade Chen, Associate DevOps Engineer at MYOB, shares how Rundeck by PagerDuty is a powerful ally for enhancing team’s efficiency and improving customer service through automation features and remote API calls.

Demo Roundups! Security Incident Management

Cyber attacks can harm businesses operations, diminish brand reputation, and decrease revenue making a robust security strategy essential. PagerDuty Operations Cloud leverages the power of AI and automation to respond, automate, and remediate security incidents ensuring cyber resiliency. Host: Mandi Walls (DevOps Advocate @ PagerDuty) Guests: PagerDuty’s Casey Clems (Security Engineer) and Sam Ferguson (Principal Product Manager).

IT Service Management (ITSM): A Complete Guide

As digital transformation accelerates, organizations face increasing complexity, tighter budgets, and relentless pressure to provide exceptional service. This creates a constant challenge in balancing cost, stability, and service. IT Service Management (ITSM) strategically designs, delivers, manages, and improves IT services by aligning them with business goals and optimizing service delivery.

ITSM vs. ITOM: What are the key differences?

IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management (ITOM) both have the mandate to ensure your organization’s IT systems and infrastructure run smoothly and efficiently. These two frameworks are essential for any modern IT environment, but their roles are often confused or misunderstood. Simply put, ITSM focuses on the user-facing side of IT, streamlining services and aligning IT processes with business objectives.

Best incident management tools in 2025 [45 analyzed, top 3 picks]

PagerDuty, Splunk, ServiceNow — with dozens of incident management tools on the market, how do you know which one to choose? Here's the reality — downtime costs organizations an average of $9,000 per minute. That's why companies are increasingly investing in incident management tools to reduce disruption and improve their incident response. But with the market evolving rapidly and new players emerging constantly, selecting the right tool has become more challenging than ever.

I Want My Shoes Fast! Observability, SRE Burnout, and OTel with Dynatrace's Adriana Villela

In this episode, we sit down with Adriana Villela, Principal DevRel at Dynatrace and OpenTelemetry contributor to break down how observability impacts reliability. We dive into what contributes to SRE burnout and how managers can create psychologically safer spaces for responders. Adriana also shares her perspective on AI as an observability-buddy to navigate incidents.

Shorten your MTTR with Checkly Traces

We all know that Checkly is a ‘secret weapon’ for engineering teams who want to shorten their mean time to detection (MTTD). With Checkly, you can know within minutes if your service is unavailable for users, or acting unexpectedly. In this article we’ll talk about how Checkly traces can help you expand on the benefits of Checkly, adding insights that will help you diagnose root causes, and further reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) for outages and other incidents.

Your New Retrospective Experience: More Collaborative, Customizable, and Powerful

Run smarter, more effective retros. Customize retros, collaborate in real time, and surface key insights faster with AI. The new experience empowers you to spend less time documenting and more time working together as a team to uncover the insights that lead to real improvements in your process, roles, and technology.

Operational excellence in the age of AI and Automation

The future of operations is here with PagerDuty's groundbreaking AI and automation innovations. Learn how PagerDuty AI agents, powered by PagerDuty Advance, and new use cases like security incident management and LLMOps can help your organization achieve operational excellence to reduce cost, mitigate the risk of outages, and accelerate innovation.

Weaving AI into SIGNL4

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced remarkable growth, significantly influencing various sectors and daily life. In 2023, the release of advanced large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google DeepMind’s Gemini, marked a pivotal shift by enabling AI systems to process and generate diverse data types, including text, images, and audio.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud Spring 25 Release: Reimagining Operations in the Age of AI and Automation

Operational excellence isn’t just a goal—it’s critical for survival for all companies. And, when powered by AI and automation, it’s a strategic competitive differentiator. With over a decade of AI and ML experience in our platform, PagerDuty pioneered the Incident Response space. And now, PagerDuty is redefining what modern operations can look like in the era of AI and automation.

Microsoft Entra ID Outage: How Vantage DX Detected the Issue Before Microsoft Acknowledges the Issue

On February 25, 2025, at 11:32 AM EST, Martello’s Vantage DX monitoring began alerting on an issue affecting Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD SSO). While Microsoft had not yet acknowledged the incident, online reddit forums had noted the issue and our Vantage DX proactive monitoring detected disruptions impacting authentication across multiple workloads. See here the critical warning for Exchange in Vantage DX Monitoring. Here is the critical warning for OneDrive and SharePoint in Vantage DX.

February 2025 Box Outage: Timeline and Post-Mortem

Box.com is a cloud-based content management and file-sharing platform designed for the enterprise and used by nearly 100,000 companies around the world. When a Box outage strikes, businesses can experience costly disruptions. On February 19, 2025, a disruption in core Box services including uploads, downloads, and the All Files page, affected thousands who depend on the cloud storage and collaboration platform.

Feature Spotlight - Post-Incident Reports

The Post-Incident Report builder is available to Advanced plan customers to help document the incident post-mortem process. This allows users to share key information and understanding about why an incident occurred, how resolvers responded, and what preventive actions can be taken to ensure it doesn't happen again. After creating a Post-Incident Report, you can share it with other colleagues or stakeholders to keep them informed about the steps you’re taking to mitigate and prevent potential recurrences.

How to connect Google Calendar events and Slack

Managing Google Calendar events within Slack has never been easier! Pagerly’s Slack integration is the ultimate solution for teams looking to streamline their event management, on-call scheduling, and team communication—all without leaving Slack. Whether you need event reminders, real-time Slack status updates, or automated Slack notifications about important events, Pagerly ensures your team stays informed and organized.

New Integration: ilert + RapidSpike for Proactive Website Monitoring

We are pleased to announce a new inbound integration in the ilert catalog: RapidSpike. This integration enhances incident management by connecting ilert with RapidSpike’s website monitoring capabilities, ensuring teams receive real-time alerts on website performance, uptime, and security threats.

Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.9 Release Notes

Product Manager Forrest Evans takes us through the new features in Runbook Automation v5.9, including a demo of incorporating Azure Key Vault in your automation jobs. For a full listing of the release notes, see the release notes page. Learn more about automation solutions, including new components to support your FinOps needs on the solutions page.

OnPage Wins Spot on G2's Best Healthcare Software 2025 (Announcement Video)

OnPage Named in G2’s 2025 Best Healthcare Software List! We’re excited to share that OnPage has been recognized in G2’s 2025 Best Healthcare Software list! This recognition is driven by real customer reviews from healthcare teams who rely on OnPage to streamline communication, improve response times, and enhance patient care. In this video, our Head of Marketing, Ritika Bramhe, shares the big news and reads some of our favorite customer reviews that made this achievement possible.

Streamline IT incident response with the latest BigPanda features

Machine-generated data has exceeded human scalability, straining L1 Ops and Service Desk team resources. Fragmented data across tools, teams, and silos hinders situational awareness, delaying each action – from detection to remediation, making prevention increasingly unattainable. The latest BigPanda updates enhance ITOps and ITSM team efficiency throughout the incident lifecycle.

Feature Spotlight - User & Group Performance Reports

Understanding how groups and users respond to incidents is vital to refining and improving your incident response processes. Our user and group performance reports help admins visualize the way people in their organization handle notifications for alerts and incidents. These reports can be used to review performance data over a specific amount of time, allowing you to clearly analyze trends and changes, and identify groups that may be inundated with alerts, or users who may not be available when expected.

AI in Production with GitHub's Sean Goedecke

In this episode, we sit down with Sean Goedecke, Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, to discuss where LLMs fit into real-world development. Sean shares how he’s using LLMs how he’s drawing the line for AI-assistance in the codebases he manages—though, as he says, this might all change by next summer. Sean also weighs in on how LLMs could assist SREs during outages—especially when you’re only half-awake at 3 a.m. after a rather inconvinient page.

Why a mobile app is the key to better incident communication

While downtime is inevitable, communication should remain swift and transparent. Businesses need a way to relay updates as incidents unfold, ensuring customers, internal teams, and stakeholders stay informed in real time. Relying on emails and web-based updates alone is no longer enough. A mobile-first approach is the solution.

PagerDuty for Financial Services

PagerDuty acts as the primary interface for real-time actions, seamlessly connecting humans and systems. From the moment a monitoring tool detects a signal to the resolution of an incident, every action is automatically tracked and timestamped. With reduced human error and no risk of missed documentation, PagerDuty provides a reliable, efficient, and transparent incident management solution for financial entities.

Introducing Beautiful Status Pages with Pagerly

Pagerly Status Page App offers a comprehensive solution to manage and display the status of services with real-time updates, customizable design, and subscriber notifications. Host your status page on a custom domain and include detailed service-level timelines for clarity and professional presentation. Why Pagerly Status Pages are the best Real-Time Updates: Instantly update status pages with both manual and automated workflows to keep everyone informed about incidents as they happen.

Modernize Your NOC: A 2025 Guide to Reducing IT Costs and Protecting Profits

You can no longer afford to ignore the silent profit killers lurking in your operations. From bloated IT budgets to unplanned downtime and inefficient incident management, these hidden costs can drain your revenue, eroding customer trust, and exposing your company to financial penalties. The solution? A radical shift toward lean and modern Network Operations Centers (NOCs), digital resilience, and a relentless pursuit of inefficiencies.

Why a Mobile Alerts App Makes All the Difference in Efficient Mobile Alerting

written by Doreen Jacobi To understand the significance of a mobile alerts app, we need to first look at mobile technology in general. It is no secret that it has become an integral part of our personal and professional lives, fundamentally changing how we communicate, interact, work, and respond to challenges. With over 307 million smartphone users in the U.S. alone, smartphones are not just a convenience, they are at the center of our everyday life.

The New Retrospective Experience Is Now Available to All

A great retrospective isn’t just about documenting what happened — it’s about bringing your team together to uncover the insights that lead to real improvements in your process, roles, and technology. But to make that happen, retrospectives need to be structured enough to be effective, flexible enough to fit your team, and easy to collaborate on. That’s exactly what we set out to build.

How to improve the utility of ServiceNow with actionable tickets

Cam Stone, Director of Professional Services at BigPanda discusses how BigPanda improves the utility of ServiceNow. BigPanda automatically synchronizes incident data and allows teams to access critical contextual information to triage and investigate incidents faster directly within ServiceNow. For more insights, check out the full webinar on How Sony expanded AIOps insights to Incident Management teams.

How Sony improved IT incident management with AI-powered context and event correlation

Ben Narramore, Director of Global Operations and Service Management at Playstation, describes the impacts of adopting BigPanda AIOps on Sony’s operations, processes, and workflows. To learn more, watch the full webinar on How Sony expanded AIOps insights to Incident Management teams.

What is DORA and how AIOps facilitates compliance

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a European Union (EU) regulation that requires financial institutions to improve their digital operational resilience. DORA creates a uniform regulatory framework across the EU to strengthen the European financial market against cyber risks and IT incidents.

How BigPanda allows Sony to proactively manage IT incidents

Ben Narramore, Director of Global Operations and Service Management at Playstation, discusses how BigPanda AIOps enables Sony’s Incident Management teams to move from reactive firefighting to proactive investigation. To learn more, watch the full webinar on How Sony expanded AIOps insights to Incident Management teams.

What is ITSM? A comprehensive guide to IT service management

When your IT team is buried in tickets, struggling with shadow IT, and constantly putting out fires, it can feel frustrating and unsustainable. That’s where IT Service Management (ITSM) comes in. ITSM gives you a plan to deliver reliable IT services while helping teams focus on what matters most: driving business success. It covers everything from handling incidents and requests to improving workflows and providing consistent value. ITSM aligns your IT team with business goals.

Supercharge Innovation Velocity by Eliminating Operational Chaos

Incident management has long relied on ITSM systems designed to handle incidents through a structured ticketing queue, with a focus on compliance and data integrity. While this method brings consistency, it often slows down response times and forces teams into a reactive mode during major incidents. This outdated and fragmented approach creates inconsistencies, as automation tools are inconsistently applied and lack a unified management system.

Feature Spotlight - Failsafe Devices

Incident notifications are always time sensitive, so it’s crucial that teams and resolvers are set up to receive them. When an alert is sent to a group you belong to that uses failsafe devices, you can still receive the notification even if you don’t have any devices with an active timeframe. You can choose which device is used as a failsafe, giving you an extra layer of reassurance that you’ll never miss an important notification when it matters.

Automated incident response: Why it matters and where it's headed

Incidents happen. Whether it’s a service outage, degraded performance, or an unexpected spike in errors, things will go wrong. The question isn’t if incidents will occur—it’s how quickly and effectively you can respond when they do. For years, incident response has been a mostly manual process: someone gets paged, scrambles to investigate, loops in the right people, and after some firefighting, hopefully resolves the issue before too many customers notice.

How Financial Leaders Can Overcome 6 Major Industry Challenges

Financial entities operate in a complex technical landscape where legacy systems must coexist with modern technologies to meet evolving customer expectations. This interconnected environment introduces vulnerabilities that can lead to IT disruptions, inefficiencies, increased costs, and regulatory risks. High-profile outages, such as those faced by Bank of America and other global institutions, emphasize the critical importance of operational resilience and compliance.

4 Recommendations for Optimizing DevOps

DevOps’s concept and development have significantly changed how IT teams work in the last decade. Small and large teams alike can see the difference when they switch from traditional software development cycles to a DevOps cycle: However, effectively embracing DevOps takes work. Thankfully, there are many ways to navigate this challenging journey, and this article will explore the four most effective ones.

How to Conduct A DevOps Maturity Assessment: Complete Guide

A DevOps Self-Assessment provides 15 questions about your DevOps processes and practices and ranks the maturity of your DevOps initiative. Achieving better business outcomes hinges on the ability to release software faster and provide responsive support. DevOps maturity assessments play a critical role in this process by helping organizations pinpoint inefficiencies, identify gaps in collaboration, and refine their workflows.

Ionic vs. React Native: Which one should you choose for mobile apps?

Building a mobile app often involves selecting the right framework that aligns with your team’s skill set and project requirements. Two popular choices are Ionic and React Native, both of which enable cross-platform development. ‍ In this post, we’ll compare these frameworks and share why we, at ilert, decided to use Ionic for our mobile app.

How AIOps modernizes the ServiceNow CMDB

Working with ServiceNow’s Configuration Management Database (CMDB) can feel overwhelming. Maybe you’re trying to understand the foundational aspects of the CMDB or looking for ways to integrate it into your IT processes. If you want to get maximum value from your ServiceNow CMDB, you might be asking questions like: This blog will explain the key aspects of ServiceNow CMDB and share practical tips and tools to improve your CMDB experience.

How Financial Entities Can Turn IT Outages Into Strategic Advantages

IT outages are a growing concern for financial entities, threatening both operational resilience and regulatory compliance. These disruptions don’t just create downtime—they also present unique opportunities for learning and transformation. By addressing common challenges and adopting forward-thinking strategies, organizations can turn outages into stepping stones for achieving operational excellence. Breaking down the barriers to incident management A lack of clear ownership.

Essential Software Deployment Best Practices for Success

Smooth and efficient software deployment is critical to delivering high-quality applications that meet user expectations. Still, many software failures can be traced back to deployment issues. A well-structured deployment strategy can help DevOps & SREs teams prevent these errors, ensure system reliability, and enhance user satisfaction. This guide explores software deployment best practices, from planning and execution to post-deployment monitoring and incident management.

Unlocking managed services provider growth with AIOps

As enterprises migrate to hybrid cloud environments, they face mounting pressures to manage complexities while cutting costs. Many turn to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to streamline IT service delivery and drive results faster. For MSPs, this is both an opportunity and a challenge: the surge in hybrid cloud adoption, an explosion of observability tools, and rising operational costs push them to act decisively.

What's New: Annotate Messages for additional context

We’re thrilled to introduce Personal Message Notes, a new feature designed to enhance the way you document and manage critical communications. With this feature, users can now add private annotations to messages—offering space to add context, follow-up actions, and reminders that are visible only to the user and system administrators.

Feature Spotlight - Service Dependencies

To know how disruptions to one service might affect other services in your digital environment, it’s important to have a record of how applications and technical services connect within your architecture. Service dependency maps in xMatters define and visualize relationships between your services, so you can instantly see whether a service is impacted by any active incidents, and how that incident impacts other services. Dependency maps can be expanded to show additional upstream and downstream services and help identify a potential root cause.