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The latest News and Information on Service Reliability Engineering and related technologies.

From New Relic to AWS: Secrets of creating a blameless culture

Feb 13, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless

We are excited to feature our COO Ken Gavranovic, with his rich experience at New Relic, Cox, and Web.com, our CEO Jim Gochee, who brings insights from his time at Apple and New Relic, and Lee Atchison, a seasoned expert from New Relic, Amazon, and AWS.

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Controlling Kubernetes Costs with OpenCost and Levitate

Feb 9, 2024 By Aniket Rao In Last9

Setting up OpenCost with Levitate to monitor the cost of Kubernetes clusters.

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The Show Must Go On - Incidentally Reliable with Piyush Verma (CTO at Last9)

Feb 9, 2024 By Zenduty In Zenduty

Catch Piyush Verma, Co-Founder and CTO at Last9 in conversation with Ankur Rawal, Co-Founder and CTO at Zenduty — discussing what reliability means to the modern consumer, why SREs make excellent decision-makers, and the current state of observability. Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty. Zenduty is an advanced incident management platform that gives you greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.

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Automating On-Call Scheduling With Squadcast: Simplify Managing Schedules

Feb 8, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast

Navigating an extensive excel sheet to determine On-Call schedules and vacation plans can be daunting. The struggle of maintaining On-Call Schedules manually is real. But we've got a solution that can help. This blog addresses the challenges associated with manualOn Call Scheduling processes.

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SRE Metrics: Availability

Feb 8, 2024 By PagerTree In PagerTree

Understanding SRE metrics and how they impact your platform's availability are fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering. How available is your website, service, or platform? What must you monitor and measure to ensure availability? How do you translate uptime into availability? This chart has numbers that every Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) should know.

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Leverage Past Incidents for Faster Incident Resolution with Squadcast

Feb 8, 2024 By Squadcast In Squadcast

Squadcast's Incident Management platform helps you learn from the past to resolve future incidents faster. In this video, we'll show you how to use Squadcast's Past Incidents feature to: 🔑Gain historical context for new incidents🔑See how similar incidents were resolved in the past🔑Identify patterns and trends in past incident activity By leveraging past incidents, you can improve your incident response times and reduce the impact of incidents on your business.

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Mastering IPM: Protecting Revenue through SLA Monitoring

Feb 6, 2024 By Ahamed Ali In Catchpoint

If you’re an SRE, then you already know your SLOs from your SLAs, not to mention your SLIs. But even if you’re not au fait with those acronyms, you’ll soon discover how widespread and applicable these concepts are in this installment of our IPM Best Practices Series. We’ll explore these concepts in detail and explore how external monitoring can enhance the tracking of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), leading to positive user experiences and informed decision-making.

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Enhancing On-Call Efficiency with Squadcast's Custom Content Templates

Feb 5, 2024 By Chitra Bisht In Squadcast

Critical information during Incident Management includes the incident's nature, impact, urgency, affected systems, and current status, enabling efficient resolution. Yet, the excessive details in incident notifications frequently hinders rather than aiding the process.

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eBPF: Revolutionizing Observability for DevOps and SRE Teams

Feb 2, 2024 By Mark Bakker In StackState

Whether you're a system administrator, a developer, or any other DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional, you know that staying ahead in cloud-native computing is crucial. One way to keep your competitive edge in the technology game is to embrace the benefits of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter). On top of advances in security and networking, eBPF-based tools are particularly impacting the observability landscape.

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Reduce Alert Fatigue and Improve Your Kubernetes Monitoring

Feb 1, 2024 By Anjali Udasi In Zenduty

Alert fatigue is a state of exhaustion caused by receiving too many alerts. This can happen when the alerts are not actionable, are irrelevant or too frequent. Misconfigurations or configurations with the wrong assumptions or that lack Service-level objectives (SLOs) can have a dual impact, leading to alert fatigue and, more alarmingly, the potential of overlooking critical alerts We spoke with more than 200 teams using Prometheus Alertmanager. Many face alert fatigue from trivial, nonactionable alerts.

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