For modern enterprises aiming to innovate faster, gain efficiency, and mitigate the risk of failure, operational resilience has become a key competitive differentiator. But growing complexity, noisy systems, and siloed infrastructure have created fragility in today’s IT operations, making the task of building resilient operations increasingly challenging.

Does this sound familiar? The incident has just been resolved and management is putting on a lot of pressure. They want to understand what happened and why. Now. They want to make sure customers and internal stakeholders get updated about what happened and how it was resolved. ASAP. But putting together all the needed information about the why, how, when, and who, can take weeks. Still, people are calling and writing. Nonstop.

PagerDuty is an IT operations management platform and cloud computing company launched in 2009. They provide a suite of tools designed to help IT and DevOps teams detect and respond to infrastructure problems, streamline workflows, and improve operational reliability. The PagerDuty platform bridges different systems and the teams that maintain them, centralizing the detection and reporting of incidents. It allows organizations to minimize downtime and resolve issues efficiently.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a range of managed database services that provide multiple database technologies to handle various use cases. They are designed to free businesses from tasks like database administration, maintenance, upgrades, and backup. AWS databases come in several types to cater to different business needs.

When you’re responding to an issue with your application in the heat of on-call, you need reliable, well-maintained tooling that’s painless to use. Otherwise, the time you’ll spend combing through monitoring data for context, connecting to hosts and other infrastructure resources, and pivoting between consoles for various managed services can add up quickly and slow your response.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) stands out as a crucial discipline, ensuring the smooth operation and scalability of intricate software systems. SREs employ a diverse toolkit, automating tasks, monitoring system health, and proactively tackling potential issues. The goal? To elevate site reliability and keep downtime at bay. In this blog, we'll dive deep into the realm of SRE tools, breaking down what each tool brings to the table.

It’s 10am, your coffee is ready and piping hot, and you have just been paged. Looks like is down, and customers are starting to notice. With no time to lose, you open up your organization’s incident declaration form and you spend the next thirty minutes filling out the fifteen required fields, while the incident grows bigger and more complex, messages are rolling in, and your coffee grows cold.