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By Jon Skog
Organizations face an overwhelming mix of digital disruptions: service outages, security incidents, infrastructure failures, all happening faster and with greater complexity than ever before. At the same time, expectations have changed. It’s no longer enough to detect issues quickly or simply notify the right people. The real challenge is what happens next. How do you move from signal to action fast enough, coordinated enough, and with the right decisions at every step?
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By Jon Skog
When an incident hits, the gap between awareness and action can make all the difference. Responders know the pain: endless tool-switching, chasing updates, and fragmented data. It’s not a lack of capability that slows response; it’s the lack of context and connection. That’s why we built the xMatters Incident AI Agent, a purpose-built, conversational assistant that brings intelligence and automation directly into the heart of incident response.
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By Jon Skog
This is the fourth post in our series on the future of incident management, which builds upon The Future of Incident Management: Your Blueprint for Operational Excellence, How Native Process Automation and Auto-Remediation Drive Operational Excellence, and Service Intelligence is the Future of Proactive Incident Management.
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By Jon Skog
This is the third post in our series on the future of incident management, which builds upon The Future of Incident Management: Your Blueprint for Operational Excellence and How Native Process Automation and Auto-Remediation Drive Operational Excellence. Organizations are facing increasing complexity across their IT landscapes.
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By Jon Skog
In the fast-paced world of digital operations, the gap between detecting an issue and resolving it can mean the difference between a blip in service and a full-scale customer impact. That’s why organizations worldwide rely on ServiceNow for IT service management and xMatters for intelligent incident response automation.
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By Jon Skog
This is the second post in a series examining the requirements necessary to achieve operational excellence. Did you miss the first post? You can find it here. Maintaining continuous uptime and resolving issues swiftly has never been more critical in the rapidly changing digital operations landscape. Automation must become the industry standard, yet the distinction between native process automation and reliance on external tools has a significant impact on operational efficiency and responsiveness.
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By Jon Skog
This is the first post in a series examining the requirements necessary to achieve operational excellence. In today’s dynamic digital landscape, operational resilience is no longer optional; it’s essential. Organizations must proactively embrace solutions designed to meet tomorrow’s challenges, not just today’s demands. Everbridge xMatters emerges as the clear leader in this space, delivering unmatched automation, sophisticated intelligence, and exceptional adaptability.
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By Eric Maxwell
Attending ServiceNow Knowledge 2025 in Las Vegas was an enlightening experience, especially for those of us invested in the xMatters platform. The conference’s emphasis on AI integration and agentic workflows provided valuable insights into how xMatters can evolve to better align with ServiceNow’s advancements. ServiceNow’s emphasis on integrating AI across enterprise workflows underscores the industry’s shift towards more autonomous and intelligent systems.
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By Jon Skog
ServiceNow’s Knowledge 25 unveiled transformative innovations designed to embed AI deeply within every enterprise workflow. These advancements—like AI Agents, the AI Agent Fabric, and the AI Control Tower—mark a leap forward in digital operations. But what if you could amplify these capabilities even further, achieving truly proactive, automated, and seamless responses across your entire organization?
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By Jon Skog
The landscape of IT Incident Management and Digital Operations is changing rapidly. Atlassian’s recent announcement that Opsgenie is being phased out in favor of Jira Service Management (JSM) signals a critical turning point for businesses that rely on robust, efficient incident management solutions. Organizations now face the imperative task of evaluating alternatives that offer the adaptability, automation, and intelligence necessary to maintain operational excellence.
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By xMatters
This 30-second video shows how xMatters brings modern incident management to life using a single, end-to-end workflow.
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By xMatters
Incident management can sometimes feel like piloting a spaceship through enemy fortresses while trying to hit as many targets as possible without, you know... game over. But, even if your response processes don't quite involve pixelated robots and laser beams like in the video game, Zaxxon, our latest release is here to make sure your feet stay firmly on the ground whatever incidents may appear in your stratosphere! Let’s take a look...
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By xMatters
From managing issues and resources to keeping customers updated, resolving an incident requires a level of multi-tasking that can be overwhelming for even the most efficient of teams. Automating your processes reduces the time needed to diagnose, mitigate, and resolve incidents, and simplifies communication throughout an incident's lifecycle.
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By xMatters
While on-call groups are the perfect solution when you need the right person at the right time to solve a specific problem, there are times when you need to notify everybody all at once. Whether you’re sending an informational message about some upcoming maintenance or an emergency notification about an issue that could affect an entire office, broadcast groups enable you to notify large groups of people at the same time. They can contain more members than on-call groups because there’s no rotation or escalation schedule to work out.
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By xMatters
When an incident occurs, teams often perform a known set of steps in a specific order to help identify and triage the incident. For Base and Advanced plan users, the Incidents menu includes a Task Lists section where teams can build out priority lists for different incident types or use cases. For example, a list of failover tasks, or the tasks required to perform a deployment rollback. With task lists, Incident Commanders can be sure that resolvers know exactly what needs to be done to quickly resolve incidents.
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By xMatters
Just because Flow Designer is a simple, visual workflow builder doesn’t mean that the flows you build have to be simple, too. In fact, flows can get very complex very quickly, especially as you connect more tools and create your toolchain. To help you build out and handle more complex logic and multiple paths, the Condition step automatically changes a flow’s path based on the value of almost any property in your flow. You can use the Condition step to compare values using AND/OR logic and a range of conditional operators to determine the appropriate path. And if the values don’t match, never fear!
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By xMatters
Although not all incidents are the same, resolvers often need similar resources or follow standard processes when responding to them. To save valuable time and effort, teams who frequently reference or attach the same files when sending incident notifications can use the xMatters Document Library to store everything in one place. You can easily add and organize files such as screenshots, maps, or response plans and attach them to incidents from within the library or directly on the incident console. For sensitive documents, set permissions so only certain roles can access, modify, or delete them.
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By xMatters
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.
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By xMatters
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.
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By xMatters
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.
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By xMatters
In a world where IT teams and DevOps groups are tasked with not only keeping the lights on but also driving business efficiencies and providing a stellar digital experience to the customer, automation is imperative. Even better is automation between multiple systems for ease of healing when an incident occurs.
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By xMatters
Download the new AIOps Buyer's Guide to learn about the use cases and key capabilities of the right AIOps tool.
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By xMatters
Read the new xMatters guide, Getting the SRE Model Right, to learn how the right approach can help you minimize incidents and limit their severity, free up valuable engineering resources, and lay the groundwork for incident response at scale.
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By xMatters
We evaluated where enterprises are positioned in the Incident Management Spectrum and in their journey to digital service resilience and found that incident management needs its own transformation. In the report, you'll learn which approach to incident management is the best for meeting today's business imperatives.
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By xMatters
Providing a superior digital customer experience is a critical component of business success for technology and digital service providers. But an enjoyable, effective, and reliable customer experience demands new IT architectures and places new expectations on the way SREs, development teams, ITOps, executives, and other previously siloed groups work together. And at what costs? To understand, we asked over 300 DevOps, ITOps and business leaders for perspectives.
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By xMatters
Incident management software helps you recognize, respond to, and remediate incidents quickly, then analyze the incident to learn what went wrong and prevent future, similar incidents. You just need to decide which software is right for your team.
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By xMatters
Download the new ChatOps Buyer's Guide to learn about the use cases and key capabilities of the right ChatOps tool.
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Automate on the xMatters service reliability platform:
- Workflow automation: Move faster with confidence. Our no-code and low-code integrations let you build flexible workflows to address issues proactively—even during deployments.
- Frictionless on-call: Manage on-call seamlessly. Automatically escalate to the right people, schedule with ease, and act on detailed alerts from anywhere.
- Adaptive incident management: Stay resilient in any scenario with our adaptive approach to incident management. Automate resolution, protect customers from disruptions, and learn from each event.
- Signal intelligence: Put situations in context and cut through the noise of multiple monitoring tools with filtering and suppression, alert correlation, enriched notifications, and routing based on role or function.
- Actionable analytics: Get quick insights into key metrics to understand inefficiencies, boosting collaboration and productivity across engineering and operations teams.
Let xMatters transform your operations.