What do you like best about incident.io?
For our engineers working on incident, the primary interface for incident.io is slack. It's where we collaborate and where we were gathering to handle incident before introducing incident.io.
But back in the days, we had a process: it was not good or bad, it was just not followed during the adrenaline rush of an incident. Reading process doc is 100% not your goal. Who can blame the first responder that saved the day?
That's where incident.io really shines: it allows to seamlessly nudge or suggest actions. You can implement your incident management framework easily.
A few examples we implemented:
- You assessed the incident as high prio, here's a short message, with more details in the thread, on what you need to do to keep the business up-to-date. And if you need them in the call asap, here's how.
- You're on a high prio incident, maybe you should escalate to get some help? Here's a simple button.
- Incident is over? Cool, here's what we expect from you on the postmortem.
The ease of use means no training is required. It also allows us to have incident leaders with no specific training, it just got easier so you can concentrate on what matter: enhancing your system & reliability.
That's what we were and we are still benefitting from. But since incident.io introduced some AI features for no additional cost. We configured incident.io to read the incident's slack messages and it is now able to suggest pretty accurate summary. It's a suggestion, you can easily edit it before accepting it. It's not going to revolutionnize our incident management, but it definitely increased the communication quality and increased the frequency of updates shared, because they are easier to write.
And to be crystal clear: we're not sending more AI generated bullshit updates, it's able to retrieve the context, impact and stuff you mentioned 20min ago and mix it with the 2min ago message mentioning the mitigation action and summarize it in a coherent summary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.