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When you start a company with the idea to use external funding to get it going, the first order of business is not to build

GitHub is a pretty critical part of a software developer’s workflow. So if it’s down, you’d want to know ASAP. But it often takes a

Grafana is an incredibly powerful platform– and our company is generating some pretty interesting data. So we wanted to create a plugin for our customers

Not too long ago Gergely Orosz pointed out on Twitter that Slack reported 100% uptime since 2022, but he didn’t think that was the case.

Improving incident response – and with it, brand equity – is always a beneficial practice. And during these turbulent times in the software industry, it

Let’s get a little trippy. In light of the major Datadog outage on Wednesday, people were asking, “Who is the Datadog for Datadog?”    When

When it comes to incident response, AIOps is an up-and-coming field. Reliability is critical to companies, but in today’s complex, interdependent software environment, observability and

Identifying the source of an outage is the name of the game when it comes to incident response and observability. But what if you were

One of the great things about our industry is that it is always evolving because people are constantly putting forth new ideas and challenging the

Observability is an exciting, emerging field. My co-founder, Ryan, and I have been here since the early days (including being some of the first hires

There was a major Microsoft Azure outage between 07:05 UTC and 09:45 UTC today (25 January 2023). Customers experienced issues with networking connectivity, manifesting as

This blog post is a continuation of our blog post on how we landed at Elixir. You may want to read or at least skim

When it comes to observability for Cloud Dependencies, we often think about how we can use that data for incident response. However, that data can

When people talk about observability, it’s usually in the context of obtaining data (metrics, logs, and traces) for the purpose of resolving incidents. But what

Monitoring and observability: they seem like simple concepts, but their definitions are hotly contested issues, especially when connotations about their purpose come into play. In

Highlights of the AWS Re:Invent Conference What happened at this year’s AWS Re:Invent? We attended and can confirm it was a great event. (Shout-out if

Why is the official AWS status page so hated? Sometimes it appears to be useless. It’s one of the biggest and most important products in

We had a great time at DevGuild: Incident Response and learned a lot from some amazing speakers that shared their experiences from Spotify, Zendesk, Salesforce,

Is it possible to achieve 99.99% uptime when your app is built on top of other apps?? Jeff Martens will dive into this question at

Software stacks are a dime a dozen these days, and picking the right one can seem somewhere between difficult and impossible. But while some people

Google Cloud Next 2022 was an exciting event, with the company announcing innovations in three major areas: infrastructure, data, and collaboration. To learn more about

Although APIs are the lifeblood of so many software applications today, the impact on their dependencies when they break can often be overlooked. And while

The DevOps field (and we at Metrist) have always realized how important reliability is. But according to Information Week, governments in the US, UK, and