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4 xMatters Use Cases That May Surprise You

xMatters is part technology, part service reliability, and a little bit of magic. If you’ve spent time on the xMatters website, you’ll likely have seen a number of valuable use cases for the platform—it can alert SREs when there’s a website outage, it can accelerate product development for DevOps teams, it can manage on-call schedules and alerts for support teams.

Evaluating Splunk On-Call Alternatives

Splunk On-Call (Formerly VictorOps) is a popular incident response and on-call management platform that allows engineering and operations teams to collaborate with ease and resolve issues faster. As part of the Splunk Observability Suite, Splunk On-Call is combined with related products to achieve the goal of bringing monitoring, troubleshooting, and investigation, into a single, comprehensive view — simplifying the process from incident detection to resolution.

Learn where you rank and how it affects digital service resilience

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.

Digital Transformation Secrets: Balancing Innovation and Uptime

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.

Then and Now: Distributed Systems Alerting and Monitoring

Distributed systems are everywhere. Although many teams don’t think of their applications as distributed systems, if they’re developing using container-based microservices and serverless functions instead of a monolith, they’re creating a distributed system. This change also means that monitoring needs are becoming more complex.

How Do I Add a Major Incident Response to an Existing Integration? - Ask Adam

When we receive an alert, the obvious choice is to accept responsibility for the issue and start resolving it ourselves. But, what happens when the incident is far more major than we thought? With xMatters, you don't have to scramble to find who else is on-call, you can configure the platform to help find other responders for you.