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We’re building the best way for your whole organization to respond, review and learn from incidents. This is where we talk about how and why.

Article

Handling third-party provider outages

What do you do when Cloudflare goes down? Or AWS?

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

10 min read
Article

Uncovering the mysteries of on-call

We ran a survey to uncover the mysteries of how on-call works in organizations of different shapes and sizes around the world.

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incident.io

3 min read
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Declare early, declare often: why you shouldn’t hesitate to raise an incident

Declaring your first incident can be intimidating. Let’s look at some common fears, and work out how to address them.

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Isaac Seymour

4 min read
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Article

How to run meetings that don't suck

What the world of software development can learn from consulting - why meetings are useful, and how to run them well.

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

4 min read
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Article

Introducing Incident Types

Use incident types to optimise your incident response for the situation at hand, and gain insights into incidents sliced across your organization.

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Martha Lambert

6 min read
Article

How to empower your team to own incident response

In critical moments, you need everyone to know exactly what their role is in an incident in order to recover fast.

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Martha Lambert

7 min read
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Article

Build custom API integrations with incident.io

Declare incidents from other tools, export incident data for analysis, configure incident.io and more with our API.

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Isaac Seymour

8 min read
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Reducing our pager load

What we did when we were getting paged too much

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

6 min read
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Engineering

Making Go errors play nice with Sentry

Getting Go errors to work well with Sentry is hard. This post explains how we got them playing nicely by deduping stacktraces.

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Lawrence Jones

8 min read

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