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The differences between reactive vs proactive incident response

Most commonly, businesses take a reactive approach to incident management. After all, the concept of incident response seems inherently reactive. However, it is possible—and often necessary—to take more proactive measures. This entails identifying potential problems and taking steps to remediate them before they become incidents.

Welcome To xMatters - Ep3 - Sending Messages

There’s nothing better than a smoothly run operation but life is full of unexpected surprises. When things don’t go to plan, and help is urgently needed, no time can be wasted. Getting a message to a resolver on time is just as important as having a resolver to call in the first place! And letting people know that help is on the way is especially important to keep the situation calm until they arrive.

Callable Flows - xMatters Support

In xMatters Flow Designer, you can use callable flows to initiate a major incident process in any workflow. Instead of including the same sequence of steps in each workflow, such as posting to a status page or opening a help desk ticket, you can build the sequence once as a separate workflow and then include that as a step in any of your workflows.

Welcome To xMatters - Ep 2 - Organizing Your Teams

Even the most gifted and powerful people could do with a helping hand now and again. Thankfully, they are not alone in the multiverse! xMatters has made the process of organizing your teams and creating a customized on-call schedule as if by magic. This way, when help is urgently needed, the appropriate on-call individual will quickly join the team to save the day. To learn more about organizing your teams with xMatters, check out our tutorial videos on how to get started.

Admin Panel - Location Settings - xMatters Support

In xMatters, sites, and region settings represent physical locations like street addresses or geographic coordinates. Every user in the system belongs to a single site and it controls some default settings on their profile page, such as their language and time zone. Let’s take a dive into xMatters location settings.