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Who watches the watchers? How we page ourselves if incident.io goes down

5 pointsby rorymalcolm6 months ago

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rorymalcolm6 months ago
(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!)<p>We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to think a lot about redundancy and &#x27;failing safety&#x27;.<p>Here&#x27;s how we achieve it - and how we&#x27;re thinking about it. Interested if any other examples of this exist in the wild - I&#x27;d love to know more about how eg: Datadog achieve this.
lawrjone6 months ago
Author here!<p>It’s a fun problem to solve and one I’ve come across before when trying to alert on your monitoring tool being down, but slightly different when it’s your product.<p>Hopefully interesting if you’ve hit similar puzzles before.