The latest news from incident.io HQ

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.

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Podcast

incident.io on Ship It!

A few weeks ago, Stephen and I had the pleasure of talking to @Gerhard on changelog’s Ship It! Podcast. We chatted about incident workflows, our relentless focus on simplicity, and how incident.io uses incident.io when we have incidents ourselves.

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Chris Evans

8 min read
The incident.io team
Article

We’ve raised $4.7 million from Index Ventures, Point Nine, and a host of incredible angels

We’re delighted to announce we’ve teamed up with Index Ventures and Point Nine to supercharge the next stage of growth and development at incident.io. With the support of number of angels, many of whom are customers too, we’re in the perfect position to deliver on our mission of world-class incident management for the whole organization 🚀

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Chris Evans

4 min read
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Article

How to avoid bad assumptions during incidents

Any good investigation builds on assumptions, and when they're wrong you can end up down a dark path. Read about an incident where this happened badly, and learn some strategies to avoid falling into the same trap.

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Lawrence Jones

8 min read
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Article

The things we find hardest in incident response

No matter how good your tooling is, how experienced you are, or how much you've prepared, incidents can still be hard. Despite the five of us at incident.io racking up some serious incident hours, we didn’t struggle to come up with a lengthy list of things we still find difficult in incidents.

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Chris Evans

10 min read
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Interview

Industry Interviews: Uma Chingunde, Vice President of Engineering at Render

We talk to Uma Chingunde, Vice President of Engineering at Render

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Stephen Whitworth

6 min read
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Article

Do I need an incident debrief?

The dust has settled after your efforts to get things back on track during your last incident, and everything's once again working as it should. Time to get back to work? Possibly, but you might want to pause and take the time to look more deeply at what happened, and whether it's worth seeking out and socialising learnings more widely.

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Chris Evans

9 min read
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Article

Fixing a Formula 1 car in under eight minutes

Picture the scene. You’re the head engineer at a Formula 1 racing team, and moments away from the start of a race when a minor mistake by your driver sees your car damaged on the way to the grid...

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Chris Evans

7 min read
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Interview

Industry Interviews: Colm Doyle, Incident Commander at Slack

We talk to Colm Doyle about his experiences as an Incident Commander at Slack.

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Stephen Whitworth

14 min read
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Engineering

One, Two, Skip a Few...

The other day, we started getting strange reports from some customers of incident.io. Their incident identifiers — unique numbers to identify each incident — appeared to have jumped unexpectedly.

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Pete Hamilton

8 min read

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