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Top 7 PagerDuty Alternatives in 2024: Cost-Effective Solutions for Modern Teams

Once a leading on-call and alerting solution, PagerDuty is now seen as a legacy tool that struggles to meet the demands of modern SRE teams. Discover the seven most popular, cost-effective, and innovative solutions in the market for 2024.

JJ Tang

September 18, 2024

14 mins

Celebrating Our Nine New G2 Awards

We’re proud to share that we've been recognized as a High Performer and Enterprise Leader in Incident Management for the sixth consecutive quarter in G2 Summer 2023 Report! In total, Rootly received nine G2 awards in the Summer Report.

JJ Tang

September 5, 2023

3 min read

We Need to Talk About the Hero Pattern Among SREs

Hans Chung refers to the tendency for SREs to independently zoom in on one task or problem at a time, and the consequences that come with it, as the “solo hero pattern”. In this post, he explores some of the reasons it happens, and what SRE leaders can do about it.

Hans Chung

August 22, 2023

6 min read

But It’s Not Our Fault! When Third-party Incidents Affect Your Service

Between cloud service providers, payment processors, content delivery networks, and more, chances are you rely on external systems to keep your product working. So what do you do when someone else's incident becomes your problem? It’s probably not realistic to completely eliminate third-party dependencies, but there are things you can do to enhance your resilience against third-party failures and maintain trust with your customers when outages out of your control impact them.

Ashley Sawatsky

August 14, 2023

5 min read

Rootly Raises $12 Million from Renegade Partners, Google Gradient Ventures, & XYZ Ventures

Rootly has already helped companies manage 60,000+ incidents and we are just getting started! We are on a mission to make reliability every company’s superpower.

JJ Tang

August 10, 2023

4 min read

Kubernetes Incident Management Best Practices

In this post, Rajesh Tilwani (Co-Founder of Humalect) covers a variety of strategies for preventing and managing incidents with Kubernetes.

Rajesh Tilwani

August 3, 2023

15 min read

Improve Visibility and Capture More Data with Triage Incidents

As new incidents emerge, there are often many unknowns about the size, severity, and cause of the problem. Sometimes it’s not clear if the problem is an incident at all. That’s where introducing a triage stage to your incident management process can help. In this post, we’ll look at the benefits of adding a triage layer to your incident management, and how Rootly’s Triage feature allows you to seamlessly transition from triage to real incident (or false alarm).

Ashley Sawatsky

July 12, 2023

5 min read

Lessons from the CircleCI Security Incident

What SREs can learn from the CircleCI security incident of January 2023.

Quentin Rousseau

January 9, 2023

4 min read

How Many SREs Does Your Company Need? Here’s How to Decide

Tips for deciding how many SREs your company should hire.

JJ Tang

October 9, 2022

5 min read

The Rogers Outage of 2022: 3 Crucial Takeaways for SREs

Millions of Canadians offline. For SREs, the Rogers outage is a lesson in the importance of testing updates, building redundant infrastructure and having a crisis communications plan.