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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.

September 28, 2023

Helm Dry Run: Guide & Best Practices

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

August 27, 2023

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.

August 13, 2023

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.

August 1, 2023

Docker Compose Logs: Guide & Best Practices

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

July 2, 2023

Kubernetes Monitoring Best Practices

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

July 2, 2023

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

June 23, 2023

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.

June 22, 2023

AWS CloudTrail vs CloudWatch: Features & Instructions

Delve into an in-depth analysis of AWS CloudTrail and AWS CloudWatch, including their features, use cases, pricing, and accompanied implementation guides.

June 9, 2023

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.

June 7, 2023

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.

May 29, 2023

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.

May 29, 2023

Install Prometheus on Kubernetes: Tutorial & Examples

Learn how to configure Prometheus for optimal Kubernetes observability with considerations, installation options, and touchpoints.

April 20, 2023

Incident Response Guide

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

April 17, 2023

Prometheus Sample Alert Rules

Learn how to write Prometheus alert rules with alert template fields, expression syntax, examples, challenges, and best practices.

April 17, 2023

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.

April 3, 2023

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.

March 28, 2023

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.

March 14, 2023

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.

December 28, 2022

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.

December 27, 2022

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.

December 19, 2022

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.

December 15, 2022

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.

December 14, 2022

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.

November 25, 2022

CircleCI + Squadcast Integration: Alert Routing Made Easy

CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform used for implementing DevOps practices. This blog explains how to integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts from CircleCI to the right users in Squadcast and enhance your incident response management process.

November 16, 2022

Routing alerts from AWS Elastic Beanstalk via CloudWatch

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, lets you easily deploy and manage applications without the need to learn about the underlying infrastructure that runs these applications. This blog explains how to set up AWS Elastic Beanstalk-Squadcast integration and route detailed monitoring alerts from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to the right users for quick and efficient incident response.

October 27, 2022

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.

September 26, 2022

Tips to make your Retrospectives Meaningful

If done right, retrospectives can help you inspect past actions, and take steps to guide teams towards continuous improvement. This blog will help you understand what retrospectives are and provide valuable tips to make your retrospectives meaningful.

September 16, 2022

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.

September 6, 2022

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.

August 30, 2022

Healthchecks + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Healthchecks is a popular site monitoring solution, used by numerous organizations to solve their monitoring and alerting needs. Integrating it with Squadcast can help your organization route detailed alerts and enhance your incident response management.

August 26, 2022

What are Canary Deployments and Why are they Important?

Canary Deployment: the right way to test your code. Learn how these deployments allow you to test the waters before fully committing a build to production.

August 25, 2022

Uptime + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Uptime is a site monitoring solution used to reach various endpoints & notify users via push notifications when downtime is detected. Integrating it with Squadcast can help your organization route detailed alerts and enhance your incident response management.

August 18, 2022

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.

August 2, 2022

Amazon OpenSearch + Squadcast Integration: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Amazon OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch. It lets you perform interactive log analytics and real-time application monitoring with ease. If you use Amazon OpenSearch for your monitoring and analytics needs, you can now integrate it with Squadcast to route detailed alerts from Amazon OpenSearch to the right users in Squadcast.

July 12, 2022

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.

June 10, 2022

Squadcast + OSNexus QuantaStor Integration: Making Incident Management & Alerting more effective

You can now integrate OSNexus QuantaStor with Squadcast to enjoy robust storage management and leverage seamless incident response, to meet your high reliability goals.

June 2, 2022

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.

May 31, 2022

Simplifying SLO and Error Budget tracking for SRE teams

Service level objectives (SLOs) are the foundation for establishing a strong SRE culture and promoting accountability and innovation. This blog will introduce you to SLO Tracker and explain how this feature simplifies tracking error budgets without the hassle of configuring and aggregating multiple data sources.

May 23, 2022

Squadcast + Amazon EventBridge: Routing Alerts Made Easy

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that simplifies building event-driven applications. This blog demonstrates how the Amazon EventBridge-Squadcast integration helps route incident alerts to Squadcast for efficient incident management.

April 1, 2022

Rundeck + Squadcast Integration: Simplifying Alert Routing

Rundeck is a popular automation tool used by numerous organizations to solve their job scheduling needs. Integrating Rundeck with Squadcast can help your organization in routing detailed alerts and enhance your incident response management.

March 25, 2022

SolarWinds Orion + Squadcast: Alert Routing Made Easy

SolarWinds Orion is a centralized platform for infrastructure monitoring and management. This blog demonstrates how to integrate SolarWinds Orion with Squadcast to route your alerts from all the Orion offerings to Squadcast for efficient alert and incident management.

March 24, 2022

Honeycomb + Squadcast Integration: Routing Incident Alerts Made Easy

Honeycomb is an application monitoring tool offering observability solutions to numerous DevOps and SRE teams. This blog explains how Honeycomb can integrate with Squadcast and enhance alert routing and incident response.

March 18, 2022

Salesforce Cloud + Squadcast Integration: Routing Detailed Incident Alerts

Salesforce is a powerful customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Integrating it with Squadcast can help in improved alert routing and enhance your incident management requirements. Here is a blog to walk you through this integration.

March 17, 2022

Traditional vs Modern Incident Response

A good incident response plan is important for preventing or handling downtimes and system outages. Incident response has evolved with time to meet the changing market requirements. This blog by Kristijan Mitevski covers how the practice of incident response has evolved over time.

February 24, 2022

Everything you need to know about Squadcast and Microsoft Teams Integration

Microsoft Teams is one of the most versatile tools in terms of providing collaboration and chat solutions to numerous enterprises. We at Squadcast understand how important Microsoft Teams can be for your organization. Hence we bring you this blog on Squadcast-Microsoft Teams integration that will tell you how this integration can help in improved incident management, effective collaboration and a lot more.

February 21, 2022