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Don't Do These 5 Things While On-Call
Last week, we gave some suggestions for how you can spend your time when you are on-call. However, here are some things that you absolutely...
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Outage Post Mortem – Jan 23, 2014
At PagerDuty, our customers rely on us to be highly-available and reliable when their infrastructure may not be. Unfortunately, sometimes bugs may surface in our...
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5 Ways to Beat the Off-Hour On-Call Blues
In a recent survey we conducted of on-call engineers, 51.5% of people stated that while on-call during non-business hours they like to spend time with...
Announcements
Zoidberg, hack days and pagers…hello PagerDuty!
Monthly Hack days. One that resulted in t-shirts with a built-in buzzer. Video game night. Whiskey Wednesdays. A fully stocked snack area called SnackDuty. An...
ITOps & Modern Ops
Use a Combination of Alerting Methods for the Best Result
Monitoring tools offer a very limited way to get alerts. Usually, only by email. But nobody wants to sit in front of their inbox waiting...
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Oh $#!+, I Forgot I Was On-Call
Okay, breathe. Everything is going to be okay! In a recent survey we conducted, we learned that over 80% of you have admitted you have...
Best Practices & Insights
Control Downtime with Incident Alerting Best Practices
Many solutions offer email alerts to notify customers of an issue. Email alerts are effective if you’re in front of your inbox all day, but...
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Outage Post-Mortem – Jan 16, 2014
At PagerDuty we offer transparency of any outage that negatively impacts PagerDuty customers. We are proud of PagerDuty’s superior reliability, but occasionally we may have...
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PajamaDuty: PagerDuty Alerts Right In Your PJs
Every month at PagerDuty, we try to one up one each other during our Hack Day. This month was no exception when a team of...
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How PagerDuty Offers Transparency of Outages for Our Customers
At PagerDuty we’ve invested in superior reliability of our service. We strive for 100% uptime to ensure that any events detected by your monitoring tools...
Announcements
Check Out PagerDuty's New Crib!
2014 is already an exciting year for PagerDuty. Recently, our HQ moved to a swanky new office. The new space gives us the ability to...
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Case For: Alerts via Push Notification
Push Notifications are the best way to get an alert when something is wrong in your system because they deliver the an easily digestible and...
Announcements
Pull-to-Refresh and More PagerDuty Mobile App Updates
As promised, we are continuing to update our mobile app to increase functionality and provide you with more information when you’re on-the-go. As 2013 ended,...
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How Four Companies Crush IT
Our customers are the reason PagerDuty is alive and healthy. Through their usage and feedback of our product we continue to strive to make it...
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Outage Post-Mortem – Dec 11, 2013
On Dec 11th, PagerDuty suffered an outage which affected a subset of customers and blocked access to all pagerduty.com addresses. First off, we deeply apologize...
Incident Management & Response
How Does PagerDuty Use PagerDuty?
We are frequently asked by our customers if PagerDuty uses PagerDuty. The answer to that is simple, Yes. While we could end the blog post...
Announcements
Steer Through Incident Storms with Dell Foglight and PagerDuty
We are excited to announce our integration partnership with Dell Foglight, a leading application monitoring solution which allows users to get a complete picture of...
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Holiday Gift Guide for On-Call Engineers
Don’t know what to give your on-call colleague or family member for the holidays? Look no further. Get them something they will actually use. Create...