The latest news from incident.io HQ

On-call by default

Like many SaaS businesses, we have an on-call rota to enable us to provide 24x7 cover if there are problems with incident.io. We have a 'pager' which will alert the relevant person if something unexpected happens in our app, so that they can investigate and fix it if needed.

Workflows: your process, automated

We're delighted to announce the latest feature of the incident.io platform: Workflows. Configure your processes once, and we'll make sure you follow them, every time.

Five steps to better customer communication

Great communication with your customers can quickly turn a negative into a positive. We lay out our five steps to better incident communication.

Postmortem Pitfalls

I sat down with Gergely Orosz to talk about what happens when the dust settles, and you're looking back on your incident with a postmortem.

How to react when things go wrong

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.

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 organisation 🚀

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.

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.