Heavybit Skill
Observability & Incident Response
The practice of operational reliability: instrumentation, monitoring, SLO setup, incident response, on-call design, and day-to-day reliability operations. Covers alerting strategies, error budgets, incident management processes, and blameless postmortems. Drawn from practitioners at Honeycomb, Datadog, PagerDuty, and others.
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Observability & Incident Response
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Built from the Heavybit Library
The operators behind this skill shared what they know in these talks, podcasts, and articles. Every one is free in the Heavybit Library.
- Video
Observability & Early Warning Detection
NOV 15, 2022With Liz Fong-Jones, Linda Ypulong, and Jesse Robbins
How are modern dev teams actually implementing observability and early-warning detection to prevent real-world incidents? Engineering leads from Honeycomb and Credit Karma join Heavybit's Jesse Robbins for a spirited panel discussion on how your team can getâŠ
Video
Observability & Early Warning Detection
Watch39 MIN
- Video
How Cloud Monitoring became a Billion $ Business w/ Sumo Logic Founder and CTO
JAN 25, 2021With Christian Beedgen and Joseph Ruscio
In this Speaker Series, Founder & CTO Christian Beedgen joined Heavybit GP Joe Ruscio for a discussion on what made Sumo Logic a leader in enterprise cloud transformation.
Video
How Cloud Monitoring became a Billion $ Business w/ Sumo Logic Founder and CTO
Watch56 MIN
- Video
Minimizing Human Intervention in Incident Response
NOV 17, 2022With Mandi Walls
PagerDuty's Mandi Walls discusses the future of human involvement in observability, dependency management, and incident response. Learn how dev teams can minimize human error by up-leveling their tools and best practices with better technology and betterâŠ
Video
Minimizing Human Intervention in Incident Response
Watch21 MIN
- Article
Three Key Best Practices for Modern Incident Response
NOV 11, 2022With Andrew Park
Here are some of the most hard-won learnings on modern incident response shared by DevOps and incident response veterans from Amazon, Netflix, Slack, New Relic, and PagerDuty.
Article
Three Key Best Practices for Modern Incident Response
Read9 MIN