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Designing an incident management workflow from scratch and where its used

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Amelia Bauerly
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1,602
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Language
English
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Summary

GitLab has introduced new features to streamline alerts and incident management within its platform, addressing the challenge many companies face when using multiple tools for these tasks. By integrating alerts from various monitoring tools directly into GitLab, users can review, resolve, or escalate them to incidents within a single interface, enhancing workflow efficiency. The development of these features followed GitLab's Product Development Flow, emphasizing iteration and user feedback, particularly through a Special Interest Group formed from GitLab customers. This collaborative approach enabled the creation of dedicated incidents, a specialized issue type designed to meet the specific needs of incident response, which resulted in a significant increase in usage. The next phase focuses on developing on-call management features, aiming to provide a comprehensive end-to-end incident management solution by early next year, with ongoing user feedback shaping future improvements.

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