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.

January 20, 2023

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.

December 30, 2022

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

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

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.

December 23, 2022

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

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.

December 23, 2022

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

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.

December 16, 2022

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.

September 20, 2022

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

This blog explains how you can manage Squadcast resources as part of your cloud infrastructure with our expanded Terraform provider.

September 13, 2022

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.

September 14, 2022

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

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

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.

July 26, 2022

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.

April 11, 2022

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.

December 3, 2021

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.

March 11, 2022

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.

December 3, 2021

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.

December 3, 2021

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.

October 13, 2021

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.

September 30, 2021

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!

September 7, 2021

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.

January 20, 2023

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

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

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

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

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.

March 11, 2022

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

Runbooks are documented procedures for the maintenance and upgrades of systems. Leverage runbooks during incident response. Save your team's invaluable time. Learn more.

July 27, 2022

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.

July 26, 2022

Incident severity levels and priority are invaluable to solving infrastructural problems faster. Understand levels of severity and how they can enhance your incident response process. Learn more.

July 5, 2022

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

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

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.

December 30, 2022

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.

December 12, 2022

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.

October 31, 2022

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.

October 6, 2022

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.

October 3, 2022

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

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.

January 20, 2023

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

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

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 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 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

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.

December 16, 2022

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.

October 4, 2022

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.

June 20, 2022

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.

March 2, 2022

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.

December 28, 2021

Kubernetes Storage provides Volume as a storage component, so you can be sure your data will remain available even when your pod is deleted. How do you create Volumes and attach them to the pod? Learn more.

October 28, 2021

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.

January 20, 2023

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

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

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

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.

December 16, 2022

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