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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Why do I need to switch to Firebase?

Apple announced some time ago that the Apple Push Notification (APN) will be deactivated for sending push messages as of March 31, 2021. To continue to ensure the sending of push messages to iOS devices, we have already implemented push shipping via Firebase in Enterprise Alert 2019. Unfortunately, the change could not be done automatically and requires manual intervention.

Global bank transforms incident alert management & communications

Customer Profile One of the top 10 largest financial services companies in the world 200,000+ employees worldwide. Serving tens of millions of customers. With operations in more than 60 countries, the Interlink Incident Alert Management app serves an audience of thousands of service owners and business stakeholders - across 20+ global markets

What's New: Improvements to On-Call Schedule Exceptions

We’re excited to present a feature update to the OnPage platform. The new update will bring more flexibility and resiliency to a team’s on-call management workflow. With the new scheduling capabilities, OnPage system administrators can create exceptions to configured, recurring on-call schedules.

Phoenix Project: Sometimes you have to look back to look forward

It has been eight years since The Phoenix Project was published and a lot has changed since then! I started to think about what we’ve learned in that time. It starts with the theory of constraints. I still see it all the time. Organizations take actions which are merely temporary, putting out fires but not solving for the underlying causes of those fires.

Mattermost Incident Collaboration now includes improved communication, automation, and history for incident response teams

Teams are always looking for a speed advantage, and that comes from planning, crisp execution, and teamwork. To this end, we’re excited to release new enhancements to Incident Collaboration to help make life easier for DevOps teams during incident response. The Mattermost platform includes built-in Incident Playbooks with predefined response plans and task lists. Playbooks can be customized to your environment and specific use cases.

Say goodbye to guessing: Introducing Automatic Incident Triage by BigPanda

Low MTTR is the much-desired nirvana-state in IT Operations. One of the most painful parts of the incident management lifecycle, which prevents the achievement of this nirvana, is triage: the time it takes first incident responders to determine the next action when facing a barrage of IT incidents. Why?

PagerDuty for AIOps & Automation: Innovate & Automate Faster

We continue to improve our AIOps and machine learning capabilities to help customers reduce noise, quickly identify root cause, and automate the resolution of critical, business-impacting issues. This will help organizations further increase cost savings, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and preserve people hours. The following capabilities empower responders to gain control, deliver critical context for faster root cause identification, assess impact, and automate actions with minimal configuration.

PagerDuty Enterprise Collab & Communication, Cloud Migration, & Customer Service: New Integrations

We continue expanding our ecosystem of native integrations to help teams bridge the communication gap between customer service and engineering teams, embrace full-service ownership, and better manage cloud migration initiatives.