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How to Learn From Failure in DevOps

DevOps failure is a touchy subject with some, because DevOps is typically perceived as a way to avoid failure. As a result, when you fail…


In DevOps


‘Tis The Season For Holiday On-Call Schedules

The holiday season is in full swing. It’s the time of year to appreciate your loved ones and spend time with those who matter most….


In DevOps


Virtual Summit Pre-Reg Is Open!

Virtual Summit is back and pre-registration is officially open! On January 23, we’re unlocking on-demand sessions to help you get operations right in 2018. RSVP…


In DevOps, Events, Events & Community, ITOps & Modern Ops


Automate Cross-Functional Team Responses For Any Situation

Continuing our ongoing effort to make incident response best practices easy to adopt, PagerDuty is pleased to announce that response plays are now available! Response…


In Best Practices & Insights, DevOps, Features, Product


5 Ways to Improve Team Health With Effective On-Call Handoffs

“You code it, you own it” means engineers are called when the software and systems they’ve built fail in production and it’s their responsibility to…


In DevOps, HumanOps, On-Call Life


Set Yourself Up for Success in 2018

As we approach the end of 2017, let’s celebrate all our successes, reflect on what we’ve learned, and get ready to make next year better…


In Best Practices & Insights, Events & Community, Incident Management & Response


Getting Ahead of the Customer Experience

We all know how important the customer service experience is. But getting customer service right is hard because it isn’t always easy to anticipate or…


In Incident Management & Response, Incident Management Best Practices


4 Pitfalls to Avoid During a Cloud Migration

It’s safe to say that the reasons and the benefits of migrating to the cloud are already well known. Organizations have come to embrace the…


In Best Practices & Insights, ITOps & Modern Ops, Technology


The Future of the NOC

One of the best things about working at PagerDuty is that our customers, our users, our champions, and our buyers are all the same people….


In Best Practices & Insights


Journey to the Cloud, Better with Incident Management

Many IT organizations have come to learn that leveraging cloud infrastructure is not just unavoidable, it’s one of the most effective paths for IT organizations…


In ITOps & Modern Ops


Scale Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

Achieving scale — that is, the ability to meet application demand at any level — is essential if you want your business and user base…


In DevOps, ITOps & Modern Ops


AWS re:Invent 2017 is around the corner!

Find PagerDuty at Booth #2628 AWS re:Invent 2017 is approaching quickly, and we couldn’t be more excited! With less than a month left until we…


In Best Practices & Insights, DevOps, Events & Community


What is Digital Operations Management?

Today, teams across every business function face continuously increasing pressures from both consumer expectations for perfection, as well as explosive volumes of data to harness…


In Digital Operations, ITOps & Modern Ops, PagerDuty Brand, Technology


DevOps for Omnichannel Retailers

The battle between e-commerce and retail companies is converging as more retailers like Walmart look to augment their brick and mortar presence with an online…


In DevOps, Incident Management & Response, Retail, Use Cases & Solutions


The Human Side of Digital Operations

It’s the morning of February 28, 2017, and vast swathes of the internet are unavailable. From individual sites to services that thousands of others rely…


In DevOps, Digital Operations, Thoughts


We break it, you fix it

When stuff breaks, things get exciting. Phones ring, emails fly, people get paged, sometimes in the middle of the night. Sometimes there’s even coffee or donuts….


In Events & Community


6 Kinds of Tools You Need In Your Security Stack

Modern Security Monitoring: Which Tools Should Be in Your Stack? The approach you take when it comes to security monitoring needs to be completely different when…


In Security


DevOps Is for Everyone — Even Enterprises

Is there such a thing as enterprise DevOps? You bet. After all, at the end of the day, DevOps is simply a methodology — one…


In Best Practices & Insights, DevOps