In today’s always-on digital world, business stakeholders and technical responders across the enterprise must understand the health of their digital services at all times so they can take action immediately when disruptions happen. Yet with operational complexity increasing by 3x per responder on average over the past three years, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for teams to make sense of data and surface meaningful insights to improve digital operations.

Today, PagerDuty is pleased to announce our long-awaited solution for making on-call life better: PagerDuty Vacations. PagerDuty Vacations is a revolutionary new approach to managing team health and incentivizing engineers to join on-call rotations. For people on an on-call rotation, life can be incredibly stressful. Being woken up in the middle of the night, interruptions during family dinners, and canceled weekend plans are just a few of the common ways that being on call can lead to burnout.

On-call shadowing is an essential practice at PagerDuty. For a new engineer, a shadowing period serves as a kinder, smoother ramp-up to going on-call, with none of the stress or responsibility for diagnosing and fixing the issue. When we configure shadowing in PagerDuty, our goal is to simulate the process and actions of going on call as precisely as we can while making sure that actions of the “Shadow User” do not affect the primary engineer who is actually on call.

We’ve heard it time and again: Digital transformation is happening across all industries and business is booming. Decades-old companies are migrating to the cloud, deploying new mobile features regularly, and adopting new technologies at dizzying rates, all in the name of increasing revenue.

Congratulations! You’ve just purchased PagerDuty, meaning you’ve decided to make an investment in your incident management process. However, in order to maximize your investment, you will need to understand all the moving pieces within PagerDuty. Today, we’ll be setting up PagerDuty for one team: the Bikini Bottom Team.

As operational complexity accelerates, our customers are realizing that it’s impossible to manage their services or innovate for their business without a mechanism to make sense of that complexity. That’s why our March product update focuses on Event Intelligence, which is all about turning chaotic monitoring data into actionable insights so that teams can work smarter and focus on the things that matter.

When we announced the launch of our Postmortem Guide, I wrote about the value of performing blameless postmortems and how to establish a culture of continuous learning. In this final installment of our blog series on postmortems, I share how to have effective postmortem meetings.

It’s already a couple of months into the new year, but a lot of us are still likely thinking about what we can improve on. You can call it resolutions, goals, or something else, but many of us will be fine-tuning our mindsets and attitudes so we can be more productive and successful in 2019. In this blog, I’ll detail why I developed an Agile approach to goals for the year—and how adopting an Agile mindset can help you achieve yours.