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A few weeks ago we released a feature on IncidentHub which gives you a historical view of your monitored services' availability.

There’s a major outage. Support tickets are mounting. Everybody from engineering to legal is scrambling for information. You have more Teams notifications clamouring for attention than you do minutes to address them, and it’s hard to know where to begin. What comes next is a balancing act—mitigating the impact, updating colleagues, managing action items, or updating a status page that will be seen by millions.

Advances in generative AI are rapidly transforming the IT operations landscape. According to Enterprise Strategy Group, 85% of organizations use or plan to deploy AI across many functional areas, including ITOps. AIOps platforms can apply advanced GenAI to quickly identify an incident’s root cause, impact, and recommend steps to resolution. When fed the correct information, AIOps gives IT teams immediate access to context-rich insights.

We are excited to add one more integration from the Industrial Internet of Things realm to our catalog! The seamless integration between ilert and Ubidots aims to streamline your operations, reduce machines' downtime, and improve overall efficiency.

With the release of On-call, our system’s reliability had to be solid from the outset. Our customers have high expectations of a paging product—and internally, we would not be comfortable with releasing something that we weren’t sure would perform under pressure. While our earlier product, Response, was the core of a customer’s incident response process after an incident was detected, we’re now the first notification an engineer gets when something’s wrong.

You might have noticed that we released a series of AI-supported features last year. Intelligent alert grouping, developed to reduce alert fatigue, is the icing on the cake. ‍ With it, we combined all ilert AI features in a new powerful add-on that aims to reduce stress and give more clarity during IT incidents.

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) stands as a critical metric when it comes to IT Operations and Incident Management. Reducing MTTR is not just a technical goal but a strategic business imperative, driving significant Return on Investment (ROI) through various tangible and intangible benefits. This blog delves into the real-world benefits and savings achieved by reducing MTTR, emphasizing its importance in contemporary business environments.

One of the first key tenets of cloud computing was that “you own your own availability”, the idea being that the public cloud providers were making infrastructure available to you, and your organization had to decide what to use and how to use it in order to meet your organization’s goals. The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs.