We’ve been celebrating a few big milestones 🎉 at incident.io in the last few months, namely:
We were recently discussing product metrics (as you do for fun on a Friday afternoon 🤓) , and Lawrence was very surprised with a particular stat around the number of workflows that have been run using incident.io:
When I joined we had no such thing as workflows. I guess I’m frozen in time when it comes to product stats, and I probably need to update my mental model.
This piqued our curiosity, so in order to uncover some of these stats (whilst helping Lawrence to update his mental model 🧠), we got to work, and uncovered some insightful metrics that highlight just how much our product has scaled in the past year.
100s of organisations have used us, and we’ve helped to deal with incidents ranging from service outages down to simple bugs. Our largest incident had 135 users join the incident channel, whilst the incident with the largest number of action items had a massive 65 action items!
Since we released this feature in December of 2021, we’ve had ~65% of customers creating workflows. With workflows, our customers have automated:
The individual workflow with the most number of runs so far stands at an impressive 1,147 runs, whilst the one with the most distinct steps has 11 steps overall. Our most commonly used workflow is inviting someone to an incident channel, which our customers have set up in 157 different workflows and has seen a total of 3,539 runs. That’s a lot of manual clicks saved!
Our product works with multiple pager services, which means we have some interesting insights into who is being paged and when. We first looked at the number of times an individual was paged, and then narrowed it down to users who were paged from midnight to 6 am. Amazingly, the same person popped up at the top of our list.
After being paged 33 times in a single week (and in that same week 11 times between midnight and 6am), we think this person is owed some recognition ❤️ — we’ll reach out to them to get them some incident.io swag ASAP! There’s also someone who’s been on-call every day since May - time for a holiday maybe 😅?
Interestingly enough, we found that getting paged during sleep hours is quite common - as we uncovered in our on-call survey earlier this year, 12% of our survey respondents cited lack of sleep as the most common challenge they faced - overall over 1,100 pages were sent between midnight and 6am since the start of May.
One thing we’ve commonly observed with our product is that a single incident will need a different lead depending on what the issue is. We looked at the single incident with the most number of leads, and found one incident had a total of 32 different leads over the lifespan of the incident 🏓
We’ve had a mighty 4,035 different people becoming incident leads since launch. One individual has taken the lead in resolving 153 incidents, we think of them as a mighty incident superhero 💪
We’re proud of the scale incident.io is enabling, and cannot wait to see how these numbers look in a year. Want to geek out with us over metrics? - send us a note and we’ll update this article or release another one with more product metrics over time!
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