Observability Pillars: Exploring Logs, Metrics and Traces

Seven Models of Cloud Native Applications

This blog outlines seven practical models for standardizing cloud-native architecture, drawing from real-world experience in cloud-native application design and development.

Looking Beyond Atlassian StatusPage: The 5 Best Alternatives

Status Page are crucial cogs in your Incident Communication process, they serve as vital channels to keep your stakeholders informed during periods of downtime. This blog explores diverse alternatives to Atlassian Status Page.

Introduction to ELK Tech Stack

The ELK Stack is a powerful combination of three open-source technologies that synergize to streamline your log management. Take a dive into what these components are, know their installation & how they work in this blog.

Demystified Service Mesh Capabilities for Developers

This blog will offer answers to often asked questions like what are Service Meshes, what are some of the popular types of Service Meshes and most importantly, what kind of problems do they actually solve?

Kubernetes Simplified: Understanding its Inner Workings

This blog will demystify Kubernetes by breaking down its core components, revealing its operational principles, and guiding you through the process of running a pod. By the end of this blog, you will have a solid understanding of Kubernetes and be equipped to harness its capabilities effectively.

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.

Status Pages 101: Everything You Need to Know About Status Pages

Status Pages are critical for effective Incident Management. Ineffective Status Pages can leave customers and stakeholders, adrift, underscoring the need for a meticulous approach. Crafting these Status Pages demands precision, offering dynamic updates and collaboration. Let’s uncover some questions that might popup while you’re thinking about or setting up your Status Pages.

Managing On-Call Rotations: Navigating Incident Management from Chaos to Calm

Discover how to expertly manage On-Call rotations for Incident Response with practical tips & best practices for a smoother incident management process to keep your services uninterrupted.

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.

Observability Pillars: Exploring Logs, Metrics and Traces

Explore the vital elements of observability in this insightful blog. Discover how data, metrics, and traces form the three pillars of effective observability, providing a holistic view of your systems and applications.

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.

Azure Monitoring Agent: Key Features & Benefits

Learn how Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) enables efficient monitoring of Azure resources with diverse data collection, real-time alerts, and seamless Azure Monitor integration.

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.

Enhanced Incident Response: Maximizing Microsoft Teams with Squadcast

Optimize your Incident Management process with Squadcast's enhanced Microsoft Teams application. Receive real-time incident notifications, take prompt actions within Microsoft Teams, and gain better visibility of On-Call schedules.

Bitrix24 + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

This blog explains how you can integrate Bitrix24 with Squadcast and effectively route alerts such as creation of a lead on Bitrix24 CRM or creation of a task in Bitrix24 to Squadcast

Endtest + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy

Endtest is a low code test automation platform enabling organizations to efficiently build automated end-to-end tests for web and mobile applications.Integrating it with Squadcast will help you route detailed alerts from Endtest to the right users in Squadcast.

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.

Status Pages 101: Everything You Need to Know About Status Pages

Status Pages are critical for effective Incident Management. Ineffective Status Pages can leave customers and stakeholders, adrift, underscoring the need for a meticulous approach. Crafting these Status Pages demands precision, offering dynamic updates and collaboration. Let’s uncover some questions that might popup while you’re thinking about or setting up your Status Pages.

Looking Beyond Atlassian StatusPage: The 5 Best Alternatives

Status Page are crucial cogs in your Incident Communication process, they serve as vital channels to keep your stakeholders informed during periods of downtime. This blog explores diverse alternatives to Atlassian Status Page.

Introduction to ELK Tech Stack

The ELK Stack is a powerful combination of three open-source technologies that synergize to streamline your log management. Take a dive into what these components are, know their installation & how they work in this blog.

Demystified Service Mesh Capabilities for Developers

This blog will offer answers to often asked questions like what are Service Meshes, what are some of the popular types of Service Meshes and most importantly, what kind of problems do they actually solve?

Kubernetes Simplified: Understanding its Inner Workings

This blog will demystify Kubernetes by breaking down its core components, revealing its operational principles, and guiding you through the process of running a pod. By the end of this blog, you will have a solid understanding of Kubernetes and be equipped to harness its capabilities effectively.

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.

Unveiling Past Incidents: Accelerating Incident Resolution with Historical Context

Having the context of how similar issues were handled in the past can be invaluable. Introducing Squadcast’s Past Incidents feature that assists incident responders by presenting them with a list of similar incidents related to the service they are currently investigating thus enabling faster Incident Resolution.

Streamlining Incident Management with our latest feature update: Merge Incidents

Merge Incidents allows incident responders to connect incidents spread across services under a parent incident. This prevents duplication of efforts while responders can work on isolating the root cause.

Unveiling Squadcast’s Enhanced Status Pages

Introducing the enhanced Squadcast Status Page(s), designed to offer comprehensive incident communication and management. This upgrade features decoupled service-component association, independent Status Page content, and the ability to create Issues separately from Incidents, allowing for granular control and customization. From showcasing planned downtimes to providing a 90-day service uptime history, and from increased subscriber management to heightened private Status Page security, these Status Page(s) facilitate seamless system health monitoring and stakeholder communication.

Introducing Squadcast’s Key Based Deduplication

Squadcast's Key Based Deduplication feature, enables you to define dedup keys using customizable templates for configured alert sources. With this feature, you can automatically group similar incidents and effectively deduplicate alerts. This blog provides detailed information on accessing the feature, exploring its primary functionalities, and the best practices.

Squadcast’s Improved Mobile App for Better Incident Response

This blog will introduce you to the latest & more improved version of our Mobile App, designed for delivering a better user experience, enhanced design, greater stability, & reliability.

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.

Enhancing Incident Management: Seven Integrations to Complete Your Ticketing Systems

Effective ticketing systems are crucial for managing customer support and tasks as they provide a centralized platform for tracking, prioritizing, and resolving customer issues in a timely and organized manner.

Status Pages 101: Everything You Need to Know About Status Pages

Status Pages are critical for effective Incident Management. Ineffective Status Pages can leave customers and stakeholders, adrift, underscoring the need for a meticulous approach. Crafting these Status Pages demands precision, offering dynamic updates and collaboration. Let’s uncover some questions that might popup while you’re thinking about or setting up your Status Pages.

Managing On-Call Rotations: Navigating Incident Management from Chaos to Calm

Discover how to expertly manage On-Call rotations for Incident Response with practical tips & best practices for a smoother incident management process to keep your services uninterrupted.

Enhanced Incident Response: Maximizing Microsoft Teams with Squadcast

Optimize your Incident Management process with Squadcast's enhanced Microsoft Teams application. Receive real-time incident notifications, take prompt actions within Microsoft Teams, and gain better visibility of On-Call schedules.

Bitrix24 + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

This blog explains how you can integrate Bitrix24 with Squadcast and effectively route alerts such as creation of a lead on Bitrix24 CRM or creation of a task in Bitrix24 to Squadcast

Endtest + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy

Endtest is a low code test automation platform enabling organizations to efficiently build automated end-to-end tests for web and mobile applications.Integrating it with Squadcast will help you route detailed alerts from Endtest to the right users in Squadcast.

Helm Dry Run: Guide & Best Practices

Learn how to use Helm dry run to troubleshoot templates and preview what a Helm chart will do.

Kubernetes Monitoring Best Practices

Learn several Kubernetes monitoring best practices to gain visibility over your workloads and meet business goals.

Demystified Service Mesh Capabilities for Developers

This blog will offer answers to often asked questions like what are Service Meshes, what are some of the popular types of Service Meshes and most importantly, what kind of problems do they actually solve?

Kubernetes Simplified: Understanding its Inner Workings

This blog will demystify Kubernetes by breaking down its core components, revealing its operational principles, and guiding you through the process of running a pod. By the end of this blog, you will have a solid understanding of Kubernetes and be equipped to harness its capabilities effectively.

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.

Seven Models of Cloud Native Applications

This blog outlines seven practical models for standardizing cloud-native architecture, drawing from real-world experience in cloud-native application design and development.

Helm Dry Run: Guide & Best Practices

Learn how to use Helm dry run to troubleshoot templates and preview what a Helm chart will do.

Azure Monitoring Agent: Key Features & Benefits

Learn how Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA) enables efficient monitoring of Azure resources with diverse data collection, real-time alerts, and seamless Azure Monitor integration.

Docker Compose Logs: Guide & Best Practices

Explore Docker container logs best practices and gain insight into debugging and troubleshooting techniques using Docker Compose.

Kubernetes Monitoring Best Practices

Learn several Kubernetes monitoring best practices to gain visibility over your workloads and meet business goals.

Endtest + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy

Endtest is a low code test automation platform enabling organizations to efficiently build automated end-to-end tests for web and mobile applications.Integrating it with Squadcast will help you route detailed alerts from Endtest to the right users in Squadcast.