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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

Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call

Let's all face it, on call work isn't fun. But it can be better. Even if you have to work on call, it would be nice to have at least some of the work done for you, before you drag yourself out of bed at 3am to respond to an incident.

JJ Tang

May 6, 2021

8 min read

How Kubernetes Can Both Help and Hinder Incident Management Teams

Kubernetes makes it easier in certain ways to manage reliability. But incident response teams and SREs must also be prepared to handle the unique reliability challenges that K8s creates.

Quentin Rousseau

April 29, 2021

5 min read

Creating Chaos to Achieve Reliability

How can creating chaos achieve better reliability? Chaos and reliability might seem mutually exclusive, but through the use of Chaos Engineering, SREs can bring about meaningful changes to system resiliency.

JJ Tang

April 22, 2021

5 min read

Should You Be an SRE or a DevOps Engineer?

SREs may have better long-term job prospects, but DevOps might be an easier career to pursue.

Quentin Rousseau

April 15, 2021

5 min read

How Would an SRE Conduct a Postmortem on the Suez Canal Incident?

The Suez Canal has been big news over the last couple of weeks. We wondered how a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) might conduct a postmortem on what happened with the Ever Given, and what that might mean if a comparable incident occurred at a modern tech company.

JJ Tang

April 7, 2021

8 min read

How SREs Can React to COVID-19's Impact on Incident Management

By adding new complexity to reliability engineering and making physical war rooms a thing of the past, COVID-19 has imposed permanent changes on incident management. Here’s how SREs can respond.

Quentin Rousseau

April 2, 2021

5 min read