Incident Management

What Is Incident Management? Beginner’s Guide

Learn what is incident management, why is it important, what are specific steps from incident detection to incident resolution and postmortems.

Incident Management
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on September 23, 2022

Explained: All Meanings of MTTR and Other Incident Metrics

Learn what is MTTR and how to calculate it. Explore other commonly used incident metrics and what they are used for.

Incident Management
Incident Metrics
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on July 26, 2022

What Are Incident Severity Levels? (SEV1 to SEV3 explained)

Understading severity levels is the key to faster incident resolution, in this article we explore how they work and some best practices.

Incident Management
On-call
Incident Metrics
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on August 4, 2022

Availability Table (90%-99.999% Uptime)

This availability table shows how much downtime is permitted to achieve a desired availability level.

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Incident Metrics
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on May 4, 2022

What Is a Status Page? And Why You Should Have One?

Learn what is status page, how does it work, what are the benefits and drawbacks and how to set it up.

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Status page
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on September 23, 2022

SLA vs. SLO vs. SLI: What’s the Difference? (Plus 5 Tips to Make a Great SLA)

Understading SLA, SLO and SLI terms is vital, in this article we explore what they mean,how they work and some best practices.

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SLA
Incident Metrics
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on August 11, 2022

7 Great Status Page Examples to Learn From

Since the status page has plenty of small details that can make a huge difference for its users we will have a look at 7 different status pages that are doing something different. Let's have a look at our selection.

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Status page
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on August 4, 2022

How to Create a Developer-Friendly On-Call Schedule in 7 steps

Trying to build a new on-call schedule or just fix an existing one that doesn't work? Here is how to do it the right way.

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On-call
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on September 23, 2022

4 Copy-Pastable Incident Templates for Status Pages

Explore practical status page templates that come handy when creating an incident management and communication strategy and copy-paste ready to use templates.

Incident Management
Status page
Guides · Better Stack ·  Updated on July 2, 2022