Prometheus Blackbox Exporter: Guide & Tutorial

Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling

As the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster grows, managing resources such as CPU and memory becomes more challenging. Efficient pod scheduling is critical to ensure optimal resource utilization and enable a stable and responsive environment for applications to run in. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of pod scheduling, including optimization of resource allocation and balancing workloads.

Reducing Security Incidents: Implementing Docker Image Security Scanner

Docker image security scanners help you identify and fix vulnerabilities in your Docker images before they can be exploited by malicious actors. This article provides tips for implementing a Docker image security scanner and discusses the practices that other organizations use for reducing security incidents.

Maximize efficiency with Terraformer: Manage Squadcast resources via IaC

Terraformer is a utility that lets you convert your existing infrastructure into Terraform code (reverse Terraform). This blog explores this utility and demonstrates its usage with respect to Squadcast’s resources.

What are Network Operation Centers (NOC) and how do NOC teams work?

In highly competitive markets, businesses have to strive hard to be always available & operational. Hence businesses invest heavily in dedicated Network Operations Centers (NOC) that constantly monitor the performance of an organization’s IT resources. In this blog, we will explore NOC and its importance.

Introduction to Kubernetes Imperative Commands

Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform which abstracts complexities associated with DevOps processes so users can focus on running their applications and not worry about the internal details of Kubernetes. In this blog, we will explore how you can manage objects using Kubernetes Imperative Commands.

Introduction to Automation Testing Strategies For Microservices

Early end-to-end (E2E) testing of microservices helps you identify bugs early in your software development process. Exploring the testing triangle, challenges and solutions for microservices testing.

The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE

Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades. Traditionally having been limited to just an on-call team and an alerting system, today it has evolved to include automated Incident Response combined with a complex set of SRE workflows.

Introducing Webforms - Involve end users directly into your Incident Management process

Over the years we’ve received requests from our customers for a feature to create/ report incidents to Squadcast without having to login to the platform. We are excited to introduce Webforms to do exactly that. Webforms can also act as an alternative to Live Call Routing.

Round Robin Escalation: An Efficient Way to Distribute On-Call Responsibilities

Responders are often overwhelmed by the volume of incidents and end up de-prioritizing certain important incidents. Hence it is important to have an efficient on-call scheduling strategy in place. In this blog, we will explore how Round Robin Escalations can help distribute on-call load and set up efficient on-call schedules.

Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn

Ignoring anti-patterns can be far worse than settling for safe and rigid processes. This blog will explore anti-patterns in incident response and tell you why you need to unlearn those.

Top 5 Pagerduty Alternatives (PD) of 2023 | Squadcast

Here are the top 5 pagerduty alternatives of 2023 reviewed in details - Squadcast, Opsgenie, Xmatters, Datadog and Splunk On call

Top Five Pitfalls of On-Call Scheduling

On-call schedules ensure someone is always available to fix or escalate any issues that may arise, so things keep running smoothly. This blog post explores five common challenges organizations face when handling on-call schedules and discusses how to alleviate these challenges.

How to Implement Global View and High Availability for Prometheus

Prometheus is a popular open-source solution for application and system monitoring. This article demonstrates how to set up Prometheus and Thanos in a Kubernetes cluster to transform a simple metrics-gathering solution into a global, highly available setup.

How important is Observability for SRE?

Leveraging observability tools and methods helps build a strong SRE team. In this blog learn how observability and observability tools can help SRE's enhance businesses.

What can SREs do to make holiday season’s peak traffic less chaotic?

Holiday season's peak traffic is the most challenging period for SREs and on-call engineers. In this blog, we have highlighted the things that SREs can do to make the holiday season less chaotic.

Implementing Istio in a Kubernetes cluster

Istio service mesh for your Kubernetes cluster and microservices - How does it work? What are the benefits? Complete detailed installation steps and configuration setup. Read here.

Golden Signals - Monitoring from first principles

Building a successful monitoring process for your application is essential for high availability. In the first of this three-part blog series, Safeer discusses the four key SRE Golden Signals for metrics-driven measurement, and the role it plays in the overall context of Monitoring.

Introducing our open source SLO Tracker - A simple tool to track SLOs and Error Budget

Check out our open-source SLO tracker and set up your SLO's so that you can accurately track your error budgets. Automate your SRE, with Squadcast's SLO tool!

What are Webhooks and why should developers use them?

Webhooks and APIs are a developer-friendly approach to building modern-day web applications. In this blog, we explain what a webhook is, do a detailed webhooks vs. API comparison, and explain why we recommend developers use them with Squadcast.

Service Catalog: Simplifying Service Management and Ownership

With the adoption of cloud and microservices, modern IT infrastructures operate with a mesh of services that cater to multiple user requirements. It can get very difficult to keep track of numerous services simultaneously. In this blog, we will explore Squadcast’s Service Catalog and understand how it helps in better service management and ownership.

What is a Security Operation Center and how do SOC teams work?

With the growing complexity of IT environments it is essential to have robust security processes that can safeguard IT environments from cyber threats. In this blog we will explore how security operation centers (SOCs), help you monitor, identify and prevent cyber threats to safeguard your IT environments.

Setting up Route 53 Health Checks

Amazon Route 53 is a versatile AWS cloud service designed to offer businesses an efficient way to route end users to Internet applications. In this blog, we will explore how Amazon Route 53 service can help configure DNS health checks & then monitor your applications’ ability to recover from failures.

Getting AWS CloudTrail alerts via SNS Endpoint

AWS CloudTrail is a highly effective cloud service, which enables governance, compliance, risk and operational auditing of your systems. Integrating it with Squadcast can help you route alerts via an SNS endpoint to the right users for efficient incident response.

How to Implement Global View and High Availability for Prometheus

Prometheus is a popular open-source solution for application and system monitoring. This article demonstrates how to set up Prometheus and Thanos in a Kubernetes cluster to transform a simple metrics-gathering solution into a global, highly available setup.

Squadcast + HaloPSA Integration: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response & Alerting

HaloPSA is a modern and intuitive all-in-one professional services automation (PSA) solution for service providers to help them manage their entire business, modernize customer experience and automate services. You can now integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end Incident Response & Reliability Workflow platform, to route detailed alerts from HaloPSA to the right users in Squadcast.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, and streamlined Incident Management capabilities. Integrating Squadcast with Komodor offers a comprehensive solution for K8s monitoring and incident response.

Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy

Auvik is a cloud-based network management software that gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. This blog is a step by step guide that will help you set up Squadcast-Auvik Integration so you can route detailed alerts from Auvik to the right users in Squadcast.

Squadcast + Hund Integration: A Simplified Approach for effective Alert Routing

Hund is a popular monitoring and communication tool that helps you keep track of important metrics. Integrating Hund with Squadcast can help your organization in routing detailed alerts and enhance your incident management process.

Getting Amazon GuardDuty alerts via SNS Endpoint

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service used to monitor AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity (threat detection) and integrating it with Squadcast can help you leverage various incident response and SRE features of Squadcast to keep your systems reliable.

Plesk 360 + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy

Plesk 360 is a popular monitoring and management tool that helps you keep track of important metrics and prevents downtime. Integrating Plesk 360 with Squadcast can help your organization in routing detailed alerts and enhance your incident management process.

Scaling Site Reliability Engineering Teams the Right Way

This blog unpacks everything you need to know about scaling an SRE team like the common indicators, and the steps that need to be taken for scaling your team. The blog uses the People-Process-Tools approach for an effective explanation.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, and streamlined Incident Management capabilities. Integrating Squadcast with Komodor offers a comprehensive solution for K8s monitoring and incident response.

The Guide to SRE Principles

Learn how to measure system performance for user-facing services, set service level objectives to define availability, and use error budgets to balance development and reliability.

The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE

Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades. Traditionally having been limited to just an on-call team and an alerting system, today it has evolved to include automated Incident Response combined with a complex set of SRE workflows.

Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling

As the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster grows, managing resources such as CPU and memory becomes more challenging. Efficient pod scheduling is critical to ensure optimal resource utilization and enable a stable and responsive environment for applications to run in. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of pod scheduling, including optimization of resource allocation and balancing workloads.

Reducing Security Incidents: Implementing Docker Image Security Scanner

Docker image security scanners help you identify and fix vulnerabilities in your Docker images before they can be exploited by malicious actors. This article provides tips for implementing a Docker image security scanner and discusses the practices that other organizations use for reducing security incidents.

Getting started with Squadcast’s On-Call Scheduling

Creating an effective On-Call schedule is crucial for ensuring the success of any organization. A well-planned on-call schedule can improve employee satisfaction, reduce burnout, and increase productivity. This blog helps you create your On-Call Schedule in Squadcast from scratch.

Announcing our improved Slack integration

We have made some major improvements to our Slack integration capabilities by introducing a bunch of UI and functional improvements. This blog will give you an overview of the latest improvements supported by this integration which we hope will help in better collaboration and Incident Management.

Announcing our improved Schedules & On-Call Rotations

This blog will give you a full rundown of Squadcast's newly revamped Scheduling and On-Call Rotation capability. With a brand-new UI and a host of nifty features, you can set up effective on-call rotations in a matter of minutes.

Looking back at our journey through 2022

In short, 2022 has been a swashbuckling year for us at Squadcast. Having completed a brand refresh and after checking off so many items on our product roadmap, we are ending this year on a high and are already looking forward to 2023. Here's an article that talks about all the good things that happened at Squadcast over the last 12 months.

A New Era for Squadcast

Our new brand design conveys trust and simplicity in a playful, energetic way - representing our team and product. Get a behind-the-scenes look at our makeover and what it means to our customers' experiences.

Why ‘owning Services’ is critical for effective Incident Response

The first step to effective Incident Response is having service ownership details readily available when an incident occurs. This blog explains why 'owning Services' is critical for effective Incident Response.

Scaling Site Reliability Engineering Teams the Right Way

This blog unpacks everything you need to know about scaling an SRE team like the common indicators, and the steps that need to be taken for scaling your team. The blog uses the People-Process-Tools approach for an effective explanation.

Squadcast + HaloPSA Integration: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response & Alerting

HaloPSA is a modern and intuitive all-in-one professional services automation (PSA) solution for service providers to help them manage their entire business, modernize customer experience and automate services. You can now integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end Incident Response & Reliability Workflow platform, to route detailed alerts from HaloPSA to the right users in Squadcast.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, and streamlined Incident Management capabilities. Integrating Squadcast with Komodor offers a comprehensive solution for K8s monitoring and incident response.

Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy

Auvik is a cloud-based network management software that gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. This blog is a step by step guide that will help you set up Squadcast-Auvik Integration so you can route detailed alerts from Auvik to the right users in Squadcast.

The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE

Incident Management has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades. Traditionally having been limited to just an on-call team and an alerting system, today it has evolved to include automated Incident Response combined with a complex set of SRE workflows.

What are Webhooks and why should developers use them?

Webhooks and APIs are a developer-friendly approach to building modern-day web applications. In this blog, we explain what a webhook is, do a detailed webhooks vs. API comparison, and explain why we recommend developers use them with Squadcast.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, and streamlined Incident Management capabilities. Integrating Squadcast with Komodor offers a comprehensive solution for K8s monitoring and incident response.

Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling

As the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster grows, managing resources such as CPU and memory becomes more challenging. Efficient pod scheduling is critical to ensure optimal resource utilization and enable a stable and responsive environment for applications to run in. In this blog, we will delve into the intricacies of pod scheduling, including optimization of resource allocation and balancing workloads.

Introduction to Kubernetes Imperative Commands

Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform which abstracts complexities associated with DevOps processes so users can focus on running their applications and not worry about the internal details of Kubernetes. In this blog, we will explore how you can manage objects using Kubernetes Imperative Commands.

Kubernetes alternatives to Spring Java framework

Spring provides tons of features and has had a proven Java-based framework for many years! Kubernetes provides complimentary features which are comparable with Spring features and can be replaced to extract configuration code from the business logic. This blog explains a few popular Kubernetes alternatives to Spring Java.

Kubernetes as a Service using Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS is a popular AWS service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on the AWS cloud. This blog will help you set up & manage EKS & take advantage of the native integration of EKS with other AWS services.

Kubernetes Health Check Using Probes

Distributed systems are hard to manage. They involve many moving parts and all of them must be operational for the system to function. This blog explains how Kubernetes uses readiness and liveness probes to detect, route and fix issues to keep the system running.

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter: Guide & Tutorial

Learn how Prometheus Blackbox Exporter can monitor external systems with multiple protocols and custom endpoints to provide rich metrics, alerting, increased visibility, and faster issue resolution.

Getting started with Squadcast’s On-Call Scheduling

Creating an effective On-Call schedule is crucial for ensuring the success of any organization. A well-planned on-call schedule can improve employee satisfaction, reduce burnout, and increase productivity. This blog helps you create your On-Call Schedule in Squadcast from scratch.

Scaling Site Reliability Engineering Teams the Right Way

This blog unpacks everything you need to know about scaling an SRE team like the common indicators, and the steps that need to be taken for scaling your team. The blog uses the People-Process-Tools approach for an effective explanation.

Incident Response Guide

Learn how to design a resilient Incident Response plan by assessing system components, evaluating resilience, monitoring, alerting, and logging.

Squadcast + HaloPSA Integration: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response & Alerting

HaloPSA is a modern and intuitive all-in-one professional services automation (PSA) solution for service providers to help them manage their entire business, modernize customer experience and automate services. You can now integrate it with Squadcast, an end-to-end Incident Response & Reliability Workflow platform, to route detailed alerts from HaloPSA to the right users in Squadcast.

Komodor + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring & Incident Response

Managing K8s requires 360º visibility into your environment, proactive health monitoring, and streamlined Incident Management capabilities. Integrating Squadcast with Komodor offers a comprehensive solution for K8s monitoring and incident response.