incident management
Resolve incidents faster with Jira Service Desk & xMatters
Machine learning and automation can go a long way, but ultimately complex problems still need to be solved by people. In the IT world, this means getting the right person on the right problem — fast. In a cloud-first world where high performing IT and software teams deploy multiple times a day, mistakes can, and […]
How to build an incident response plan
On October 21, 2016 at approximately 4am PST, the internet broke. Ok, 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 (Distributed Denial of Service) targeting Dyn, one of the largest DNS (Domain Name System) providers on the internet. […]
Joining the Atlassian family
Just over three years ago, we embarked on a journey with a simple goal in mind. The software world was moving quickly in the direction of rented servers, hosted solutions, and outsourced vendors, all in service of allowing teams and companies to move quicker and to be more nimble than ever before. What used to […]
4 ways to use knowledge management for ITIL processes
Jira Service Desk is excited to announce that agents can now view, search, and share knowledge base articles directly from an issue. By being able to discover and share knowledge easily, IT teams can streamline ITIL processes, including incident, change and problem management. Read out to find out how you can apply this new feature.
How alert correlation helps Dev and Ops work better together
This is a guest post written by Tiffany Cantle, Senior Marketing Manager at BigPanda. We all need to move fast in order to stay competitive. But the faster things move, the faster things break. While many companies have made great strides towards automating application release and infrastructure management, automation for service assurance has been sorely […]
How Hipchat and Statuspage help companies manage incidents
?! There’s a hiccup with your service. You jump into incident-management mode. Your users, who are already tweeting and sending support tickets, need to know what’s up. Your team needs to come together to diagnose and fix the issue – FAST. This is the story of two Hipchat customers, and how they use our integration with Statuspage to manage incidents.
Inside Atlassian: how our site reliability engineers do incident management
“Ohhhhh $#!τ. We broke Confluence.” In one of our first Confluence Cloud releases in 2016, we broke our users’ ability to edit pages. As the head of Atlassian’s site reliability engineering group, this kind of thing falls right into my wheelhouse. In this post, I’ll walk you through how we responded to the situation to get Confluence working again. I’ll give an insider’s view of our incident management process, as well as how we’ve configured Atlassian tools to support this work.
Inside Atlassian: how IT & SRE use ChatOps to run incident management
Any team that slings code for a living deals with service issues. They know all too well the hated red alert… the dreaded text in the middle of the night… the loathsome ping from a coworker telling them that $#!π just hit the fan. But what separates good services from great services is the ability to recover swiftly with minimal affect on users. And a big factor in swift recovery is ChatOps.