incident management
Downtime and taxes: an open letter to the IRS
Dear IRS, We imagine that Tax Day during the best of times is extremely hectic, so we can’t even imagine what your past 24 hours has been like. First off, we wanted to send you some massive #HugOps from all of us at Statuspage – we know how stressful unplanned downtime can be. Our bread […]
Uniting technical and non-technical teams for better incident response
It takes a village to respond to and resolve incidents. But the teams involved in incident response often work in silos: SREs and devs are heads down fixing the problem, support is flooded with emails/tickets, and marketing/PR may be putting out fires on Twitter. Even if there’s some communication happening over chat or across desks, there’s […]
Statuspage examples: 24 status pages showcasing excellent customization, design, and incident communication
We’ve seen a lot of status pages over the years. Everything from scrappy DIY pages for side projects to totally bespoke plans for global corporations has crossed our monitors in one way or another. We wanted to share some examples of great status pages we’ve seen through the years. A good status page helps visitors […]
Be kind during downtime: spread #HugOps love today (and every day)
Have you ever seen a tweet like this and wondered what it was? It’s #HugOps! We’re sending you some giant #HugOps today (and every day), and hope that after reading this you feel inspired to pass on some #HugOps, too. Hold up…What is HugOps? Put simply, HugOps is a way to celebrate the human, empathetic side […]
AWS status: The complete guide to monitoring status on the web’s largest cloud provider
If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor. Sometimes, they’re not. While AWS is the largest cloud provider and boasts excellent reliability, the service […]
Manage incident notifications with alert toggling
Letting the right people know about incidents is an easier-said-than-done kind of task. Every incident is different and some notifications simply don’t need to land in everyone’s inbox. We’ve listened to a lot of customers who like the idea of posting an incident to their status page, but not having that incident sent as notifications […]
How to write a good status update
This is a guest post from Baron Schwartz, Founder and CEO at VividCortex. I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO of a SaaS platform for database performance management, VividCortex, I know the power of a great status update to build or destroy trust. Unfortunately, I see more bad status updates […]
A guide to introducing Statuspage to your customers (with a template)
People need to know where to go or what to look for in case problems arise. In the physical world, things like first aid kits and fire exits give us a sense of assurance that somebody was paying attention and dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. So why should an app or website be […]
Statuspage tips & tricks: Monitor Statuspage traffic with Google Analytics
It’s easy to wonder if anyone knows your status page is even out there. When things are going well, the page you use for posting incident communication is obviously pretty quiet. You might wonder, are people aware of my page? Do people on my team check it? Are any of my customers actually getting any […]
We filed 100 support tickets to find out how to send better customer service email auto-replies
Customer service emails have a way of being pretty terrible. As a company, if you don’t make a solid effort to build good systems around your email customer service, it’s going to be a drag. It got us thinking about how we do email support here at Statuspage. We’ve noticed a lot of great companies […]
Tell the other 99.95% of your story with Statuspage Uptime Showcase
We’re always singing the praises of downtime communication. Customers deserve transparency and clear information, especially when things aren’t running as expected. But reporting downtime can sting. It’s easy for people to use your updates to draw negative conclusions about your service, or even your entire business, if they only hear from you when things break. […]
The best incident management is value driven – here’s why
Today, we’re all laser-focused on delivering world-class service, resolving issues faster, and building lasting trust within the organization. But things break – that’s just a fact. We need to think a lot about how to handle them when they do. So we follow our Incident Management process to restore service quickly and our Post-Incident Review […]
Atlassian extends leadership in Incident Management
Last summer, we made a bet on the importance of incident communications when we acquired Statuspage and added the first product to our suite to specifically address incident management and communications. We saw early on that providing status and regularly communicating with customers — especially during incidents — had become a critical part of the software […]
An introduction to incident management
Incident management is one of the most critical IT support processes that an IT organization needs to get right. Service outages can be costly to the business and IT teams need an efficient way to respond and resolve these issues quickly. Read on to learn more about incident management with your IT service desk, subscribe to the ITSM Bootcamp, and download Jira Service Desk.
A bird’s eye view of the Amazon S3 outage
If there ever was a day it felt like the entire internet ground to a halt, it was Feb. 28. Amazon’s S3 storage service went down in its US-EAST-1 Region for the better part of 4 hours, causing a lot of prominent web sites and services to not function. For a service that powers a […]