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Working with extroverts (written by an actual extrovert)
Here’s my dirty little work secret: I like meetings. Especially ones that show up on my calendar last minute. Ones with no agenda or structure. The meetings that start with 11 minutes of chatter and go well past their time slot. Conversations that dip and weave through different topics, finding their way home after looping […]
Announcing postmortems for Jira Ops
[cta]Major incidents are inevitable, and fixing them is the top priority for any ops or DevOps team. But what happens after service is restored? Do teams take the time to fully understand what went wrong, then follow up to prevent it happening again? The reality is that many teams today don’t. Incident postmortems are not […]
Statuspage Uptime Showcase now unlimited on all plans
We’re happy to announce unlimited Uptime Showcase components on all Statuspage plans. The change means that any page, public or private, can now display historical uptime for as many components as needed. Showcase components display a green mark for each day with no degraded performance or outages for a given component. For days with incidents, […]
Status page open source vs. paid guide
[cta]Over the years here at Statuspage we’ve probably heard every version of the open source vs. paid status page argument. While we’re obviously fans of the SaaS model, we also know there are a lot of advantages to an open source status page for a lot of teams. We’ve even recommended that route to some […]
Incident postmortem writing tips
[cta]Incidents are a learning opportunity. A chance to uncover vulnerabilities in your system. An opportunity to mitigate repeat incidents and decrease time to resolution. An incident postmortem is an excellent framework for learning from incidents and turning problems into progress. It also builds trust with customers, colleagues, and end users (basically the folks affected by […]
Stop support tickets in their tracks with Jira Service Desk and Statuspage
[cta]Nothing puts a drag on IT service teams and customer support teams like answering the same question across multiple tickets. Outages and incidents have a way of sending these teams an avalanche of duplicate tickets. During a service interruption, tickets start flying in, the team can’t keep up, and end users have a bad experience […]
Four nines and beyond: A guide to high availability infrastructure
Here’s a way to build a bridge that never fails: Drain the river and fill it in with concrete. Expensive, ugly, and stupid. But it’s certainly fail-proof. This is a really simplified version of the problem web developers face when aiming to build high availability services. We’ve talked about the increasingly-interconnected nature of cloud tools […]
How to prepare for and communicate during downtime
[cta]The unfortunate reality about running a web service is that every now and again, you’re going to have downtime. Even the best web companies have the occasional blip in service. If downtime is inevitable, then it’s best to plan ahead so that you can be ready. After all, prior preparation prevents poor performance. Poorly handled […]
How InVision uses Statuspage to bolster confidence in its award-winning design platform
When Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Airbnb teams want to design collaboratively, they fire up InVision. With millions of users worldwide, InVision is a robust platform for product design teams. [cta] As a cloud service serving so many end users, it’s critical InVision to keeps users updated about service status. The team brought on StatusPage to help […]
On writing well when you’re in a damn hurry
[cta]We were told in school we’d need good writing skills for almost any job. Here’s what we weren’t told: We’d have no time to write well, which is to say slowly. The most critical writing we’ll have to do will not be in a calm, take-your-time situation. It’ll be done in some oh-sh*t-time-crunch-hurry-up-and-send-this type situation. […]
Scheduled maintenance message examples and inspiration
[cta]A well run service needs routine maintenance. Without regular system maintenance, updates would go uninstalled, bugs would go unsquashed, patches would go … unpatched. It’s important for the long-term reliability of your service that ops teams and system administrators feel confident and empowered about announcing maintenance activities. Whether you’re running a public service on the […]