incident management
Get your sheet together: how to create an incident communication plan
Downtime happens. While it can certainly be chaotic and stressful, if handled properly, it can also be a chance to build customer trust and loyalty. The way you respond to and communicate around incidents and downtime tells customers a lot about what you value. Therefore, it’s essential to show customers you value them by communicating early, often, […]
A better way to write postmortems in Statuspage
After every incident you have the opportunity to learn, improve, and build trust with customers by closing the loop with a postmortem.
How to convince your boss you need a status page
Adding another tool to the mix involves approval processes, exec buy-in, boss-nudging, and more. Here’s how you can convince your boss you need a status page.
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, […]
5 questions on the latest ITSM trends
Last month, Atlassian attended SITS 2018, The Service Desk and IT Show. We staffed a busy booth, demoing our software and learning about challenges facing the support managers, analysts, IT directors, and CTOs in attendance. Our own Principal Solutions Engineer, Paul Buffington, also spoke to an overflowing crowd about best practices for incident management. We sat down with Paul […]
Status page open source vs. paid guide
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
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
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 […]
Scheduled maintenance message examples and inspiration
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 […]
Looking back on the largest DDoS in history
On October 21, 2016 at approximately 4am PST, the internet broke. OK, we know the internet doesn’t “break.” But hundreds of important services powering our modern web infrastructure had outages – all stemming from a DDoS targeting Dyn, one of the largest DNS providers on the internet. Here is the initial status notification Dyn customers […]
How to not lose your s#!t during an incident
Often I am asked how I always seem calm and poised during incidents. This persona is not entirely accurate as I am more like a duck in these scenarios, calm on top of the water, but paddling frantically under the water. I have learned some tricks that have helped me stay calm and drive incidents […]
Connecting Statuspage incidents and components
The Incident and Component status workflows are now unified in Statuspage, meaning easier incident communication and fewer steps to get status updates to the right people. When creating a new incident, you’re now asked to flag the components that correspond to that incident. This aims to make sure your page is always an accurate reflection […]
Providing proactive support through Intercom and Statuspage
Since the start of Statuspage, two of our core tenants have been: Keep end users in the loop during downtime. Reduce the support load on incident response teams. At a minimum, this means giving end users a status page they can depend on and allowing them to subscribe to incident notifications via email and SMS. […]
7 excellent maintenance page examples from real websites
Nobody likes an unavailable website. But if you must take your site offline, a clear and well-designed maintenance page can turn around a bad experience.