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

SIGNL4 Onboarding: Completing Your Purchase

Welcome to SIGNL4! In this onboarding video, we’ll walk you through how to complete your purchase so you can unlock the full power of SIGNL4 for your team. Whether you’re just getting started or upgrading from a trial, this quick tutorial makes it easy to activate your subscription and start benefiting from advanced incident alerting and on-call management. In this video, you’ll learn how to: Whether you’re in IT operations, DevOps, SOC, or MSSP environments, SIGNL4 helps your team stay connected to every critical incident — anywhere, anytime.

Apica + ilert: Closing the gap between detection and resolution

ilert now offers a native integration with Apica that connects telemetry events to ilert’s alerting, on-call, and incident communication. It helps SRE, DevOps, and IT operations teams turn detection into action faster, reduce alert noise with the aid of AI, and keep stakeholders informed without unnecessary notifications.

The Secret Cost of Pagers

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘pager?’ For most people its either the ’90s or doctors. Which to me, feels like an oxymoron. A decades old device mixed with an industry based on innovation? It’s a recipe for disaster. Yet somehow, pagers still accompany doctors on their daily rounds. And while there are plenty of supposed “reasons” why, most of them don’t hold up, especially now.

Ultimate Tools for Wordpress Uptime Monitoring

Running a WordPress site is a dynamic endeavour that goes beyond publishing content. To maintain your online presence, it is essential to ensure website availability, improve performance, and provide a positive user experience. Frequent downtime, slow loading times, or unexpected errors like PHP errors or permissions errors can harm your website's reputation, drive away visitors, and negatively impact search engine rankings.

What are agentic IT Operations?

The rise of hybrid cloud, CI/CD, agile methodologies, and microservices has dramatically accelerated innovation, but it has also brought corresponding increases in complexity, fragmentation, and chaos. Enterprise IT departments are struggling to keep up. To stay ahead of these complex environments, enterprises have dramatically increased their spending on observability and IT Service Management (ITSM) tools. However, despite a 20% year-over-year increase in spending, incident detection remains poor.

What is Automated Incident Response

While writing our 2024 recap, we found that teams handled over 2.2 million new incidents. Critical incidents alone tripled, increasing from 3,000 in 2023 to 9,200 in 2024. Dealing with such a large volume of incidents is not an easy task. And dealing with them manually is definitely not easy. Your valuable time goes into routine tasks like creating tickets, setting up war rooms, and notifying stakeholders. These keep you from fixing the actual problem.