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Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy
The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE
Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling
Reducing Security Incidents: Implementing Docker Image Security Scanner
Announcing our improved Schedules & On-Call Rotations
What are Webhooks and why should developers use them?
Looking back at our journey through 2022
Squadcast + Hund Integration: A Simplified Approach for effective Alert Routing
Getting Amazon GuardDuty alerts via SNS Endpoint
Maximize efficiency with Terraformer: Manage Squadcast resources via IaC
What are Network Operation Centers (NOC) and how do NOC teams work?
Introduction to Kubernetes Imperative Commands
Plesk 360 + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy
APImetrics + Squadcast: Routing Alerts Made Easy
A New Era for Squadcast
Postmark + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing
CircleCI + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy
Why ‘owning Services’ is critical for effective Incident Response
Routing alerts from AWS Elastic Beanstalk via CloudWatch
Announcing Incident watchers: Subscribe to incidents and receive incident updates in real-time
Kubernetes alternatives to Spring Java framework
Introducing Squadcast Premium
Service Catalog: Simplifying Service Management and Ownership
Introduction to Automation Testing Strategies For Microservices
Tips to make your Retrospectives Meaningful
Introducing Webforms - Involve end users directly into your Incident Management process
Managing Squadcast resources with our expanded Terraform provider
What is a Security Operation Center and how do SOC teams work?
Round Robin Escalation: An Efficient Way to Distribute On-Call Responsibilities
Healthchecks + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy
What are Canary Deployments and Why are they Important?
Uptime + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy
Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn
What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?
Exploring PagerDuty Alternatives for Incident Response
Amazon OpenSearch + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy
Classifying Severity Levels for Your Organization
Distributed Caching on Cloud
Kubernetes as a Service using Amazon EKS
Setting up Route 53 Health Checks
Squadcast + OSNexus QuantaStor Integration: Making Incident Management & Alerting more effective
Getting AWS CloudTrail alerts via SNS Endpoint
Simplifying SLO and Error Budget tracking for SRE teams
Top Five Pitfalls of On-Call Scheduling
Freshdesk + Squadcast: Enabling Streamlined Incident Response for Enterprises
Squadcast + Amazon EventBridge: Routing Alerts Made Easy
Rundeck + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing
SolarWinds Orion + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy
Honeycomb + Squadcast Integration: Routing Incident Alerts Made Easy
Salesforce Cloud + Squadcast Integration: Routing Detailed Incident Alerts
How to Implement Global View and High Availability for Prometheus
ServiceNow + Squadcast Integration: Automate IT Ticketing and Project Tracking
Kubernetes Health Check Using Probes
Traditional vs Modern Incident Response
Everything you need to know about Squadcast and Microsoft Teams Integration
Cloud Complexity - Bringing Resources together in Multi-cloud Environments
Squadcast Earns a Spot on G2’s Top 50 Best Software Awards for IT Management Products 2022
Understanding Technical Debt for Software Teams
Presenting Role-Based Access Control for Squadcast users
Looking back at our journey through 2021!
Helm - Package Manager for Kubernetes
DevSecOps - Shifting Security to the Left
Log4j Security Response - Squadcast is not affected by RCE Vulnerability
How important is Observability for SRE?
What can SREs do to make holiday season’s peak traffic less chaotic?
How to deploy multiple EC2 instances in one go using Terraform
Learn Terraform: Automate and Manage your Infrastructure easily
Infrastructure as Code: All you need to know
How to improve your influence as an SRE
Introduction to Kubernetes Storage
Differences between Site Reliability Engineer Vs. Software Engineer Vs. Cloud Engineer Vs. DevOps Engineer
Implementing Istio in a Kubernetes cluster
Configuration, Access, and Connection to GCP CloudSQL for PostgreSQL
Golden Signals - Monitoring from first principles
Protecting internal services with Cloudflare Access
Demystifying Kubernetes RBAC
Creating your first module using Terraform
Going from Zero to SRE
Introducing our open source SLO Tracker - A simple tool to track SLOs and Error Budget
How Squadcast Benefits On-call Engineers - Part 1
Five Ways Developers Can Help SREs
Announcing our $6M investment to double down on IT incident and Reliability needs
Demystifying DevOps and SRE
Most frequently asked questions surrounding Google’s Cloud Operations Sandbox
Kyverno - Policy Management in Kubernetes
Tips for Choosing the Right CI/CD Tools
Upcoming trends in DevOps and SRE
CI/CD Pipeline: A Quick Guide
Threat Stack and Squadcast Integration Streamlines Alerts with Greater Context
Faster Incident Resolution with Context Rich Alerts
Infrastructure monitoring using kube-prometheus operator
Creating a Better Incident Response Plan
Top SRE Toolchain Used By Site Reliability Engineers
Using Distributed Tracing in Microservices Architecture
7 Ways SRE Is Changing IT Ops And How To Prepare For Those Changes
Reduce Toil with Better Alerting Systems
How to configure services in Squadcast: Best practices to reduce MTTR
Overview of Incident Lifecycle in SRE
Error Budgets and their Dependencies
7 Tips On Building And Maintaining An SRE Team In Your Company
The Key Differences between SLI, SLO, and SLA in SRE
The True Cost of Building your Own Incident Management System (IMS)
Better incident management while working remotely: The Squadcast way
G2 Recognizes Squadcast as Momentum Leader in Incident Management
Squadcast's Year in Review, 2020
Top Observability tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs
Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Tech Gadgets DevOps Engineers & SREs would love!
From SysAdmin to SRE: How to evolve your skillset
How to SRE without an SRE on your team
How small changes to your SLOs can be SMART for your business - A narrative case study
Top Open Source projects for SREs and DevOps
Curb alert noise for better productivity : How-To's and Best Practices
My journey to Squadcast (A roller-coaster ride of learning)
Choosing SLOs that users need, not the ones you want to provide
Keep track of your on-call responsibilities
Keeping your teams and customers in the loop during downtime
Nishant Singh shares his thoughts on being an SRE
Evan Niedojadlo from Peddle shares his thoughts on being an SRE
Understanding the landscape of AWS compute
SLOs for AWS-based infrastructure
Kubernetes Operators for Automated SRE
On-call On-boarding Checklist
Best Practices in Incident Management
Configure an Intuitive Service Dashboard & Reduce Response Time
Towards More Effective Incident Postmortems
Using observability tools to set SLOs for Kubernetes Applications
Optimizing your alerts to reduce Alert Noise
What you should know about Squadcast + Grafana Integration
Leverage JIRA with Squadcast throughout the incident lifecycle
Incident Response in the time of Remote Work
Must Read DevOps & SRE Books for all Engineers
Top Monitoring Tools for DevOps Engineers and SREs
Succeeding With Service Level Objectives
Hrushikesh shares his journey into SRE and his thoughts on the future of this space
Better Incident Response: Incident Classification & Setting Severities with Tags
Scheduling IT and Engineering on-call rotations just got easier
Things to do to make on-call less stressful
Hiteshwar shares his thoughts on being an SRE
Arild Jensen from Upwork shares his thoughts on being an SRE
What you can show on your status page
Using a Status Page in your Incident response process
Reducing On-call Alert Fatigue with Deduplication
Squadcast's Year in Review, 2019
How to avoid on-call burnout
Transparency in Incident Response
Danny Mican on his experience as an SRE at Auth0
The Age of Service Mesh
Pavlos Ratis shares his experience on being an SRE
Automated Runbooks = Faster Recovery
Managing technical risk effectively with Error Budgets
Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) –What It Is? and how to reduce it using Squadcast.
Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes
Mark Henderson from Stack Overflow shares his experience on being an SRE
Squad Talks: Madhu Kumar
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How Squadcast Benefits On-call Engineers - Part 1
How Squadcast Benefits On-call Engineers - Part 1
It is difficult to stay completely reliable in an always-on world. So it's very important to choose the right Incident Management solution that can solve your problems. In this blog, we have highlighted the benefits of Squadcast and why you should adopt it.
August 19, 2021
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Five Ways Developers Can Help SREs
Five Ways Developers Can Help SREs
Reliability is a team game. More the collaboration between Developers and SREs, greater will be the success of the product. In this blog, we have listed down the five best practices that developers can adopt, to make the SRE's life easier.
August 10, 2021
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Announcing our $6M investment to double down on IT incident and Reliability needs
Announcing our $6M investment to double down on IT incident and Reliability needs
We're thrilled to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures, backed by Wipro, Nexus Venture Partners, and Chiratae Ventures. Read this post from Squadcast CEO Amiya Adwitiya to learn more about where we go from here!
August 6, 2021
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Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy
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
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
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
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.
Announcing our improved Schedules & On-Call Rotations
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.
What are Webhooks and why should developers use them?
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.
Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Exploring PagerDuty Alternatives for Incident Response
Exploring PagerDuty Alternatives for Incident Response
PagerDuty is a dominant player in the incident response space, but over the years, competing platforms have begun carving out their own niche in the incident response space. This blog explores some of the best incident response platforms that can help organizations improve their reliability.
Top Five Pitfalls of On-Call Scheduling
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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 + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy
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
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
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 + 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.
APImetrics + Squadcast: Routing Alerts Made Easy
APImetrics + Squadcast: Routing Alerts Made Easy
APImetrics is an API Monitoring solution that lets you make API calls from external, remote cloud locations with the same user security configurations. You can now integrate APImetrics with Squadcast, to route detailed alerts to the right users and enhance your incident management process.
Postmark + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing
Postmark + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing
Postmark is a simple email delivery system that sends transactional and marketing emails and has them delivered to the inbox on time. You can integrate it with Squadcast, to route detailed alerts from Postmark to the right users in Squadcast.
The Evolution of Incident Management from On-Call to SRE
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
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
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.
Anti-patterns in Incident Response that you should unlearn
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.
What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?
What are Runbooks? And why are they needed?
Runbooks are documented procedures for the maintenance and upgrades of systems. Leverage runbooks during incident response. Save your team's invaluable time. Learn more.
Exploring PagerDuty Alternatives for Incident Response
Exploring PagerDuty Alternatives for Incident Response
PagerDuty is a dominant player in the incident response space, but over the years, competing platforms have begun carving out their own niche in the incident response space. This blog explores some of the best incident response platforms that can help organizations improve their reliability.
Announcing our improved Schedules & On-Call Rotations
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
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
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
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.
Announcing Incident watchers: Subscribe to incidents and receive incident updates in real-time
Announcing Incident watchers: Subscribe to incidents and receive incident updates in real-time
Incident Watchers is a new Squadcast feature that lets you add watchers to your incident and notifies you about all the updates to that incident. This blog outlines how you can access the feature, its primary functionalities, and how we foresee it helping improve your incident management process.
Introducing Squadcast Premium
Introducing Squadcast Premium
To ensure that we keep investing in innovation and continue to offer our users the best reliability and incident management features, today we are announcing our Premium package where users will have access to all of Squadcast’s on-call and incident response features. This blog will help you explore Squadcast’s new Premium Package.
Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy
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
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?
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.
Squadcast + Hund Integration: A Simplified Approach for effective Alert Routing
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
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 + 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.
Strategies for Kubernetes Cluster Administrators: Understanding Pod Scheduling
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
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
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
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
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.
Helm - Package Manager for Kubernetes
Helm - Package Manager for Kubernetes
Deploying applications to Kubernetes can be complex as you may be required to create multiple interdependent resources. This blog explains how Helm can help software professionals to package, configure and deploy applications onto Kubernetes.
Squadcast + Auvik Integration: Routing alert made easy
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.
Reducing Security Incidents: Implementing Docker Image Security Scanner
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.
What are Webhooks and why should developers use them?
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.
Squadcast + Hund Integration: A Simplified Approach for effective Alert Routing
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
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.
What are Network Operation Centers (NOC) and how do NOC teams work?
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.
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Arild Jensen from Upwork shares his thoughts on being an SRE
Arild Jensen from Upwork shares his thoughts on being an SRE
Arild Jensen, SRE Manager at Upwork, talks about his journey into SRE and some best practices he picked up along the way including implementing a blameless culture, code review and making decisions based on hard data.
January 17, 2020
Danny Mican on his experience as an SRE at Auth0
Danny Mican on his experience as an SRE at Auth0
Danny Mican, an SRE from Auth0 shares his thoughts on SRE and being SLO driven to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Danny currently manages the reliability of systems that authenticate over 2.5 billion logins per month and is expected to have 99.9% (3 Nines) availability.
December 2, 2019
Pavlos Ratis shares his experience on being an SRE
Pavlos Ratis shares his experience on being an SRE
Pavlos is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Munich, Germany. He likes building software and expanding his knowledge around the reliability of services and their infrastructure. He has created a few open-source SRE projects such as the awesome-sre, Wheel of Misfortune, Availability Calculator, and awesome-chaos-engineering to assist teams and individuals in getting on board with the SRE culture. Recently, he was invited to be a technical reviewer of the "Real World SRE" book by Nat Welch, where he offered suggestions regarding the content of the book.
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