Incident management in modern tech environments emphasizes proactive strategies, error budgets, and a culture of continuous improvement rather than blame. The "Grafana's Big Tent" podcast, featuring Grafana Labs team members and Alex Koehler from Prezi, explores these concepts, highlighting the importance of structured incident response systems and a culture that supports innovation and learning from mistakes. Prezi's approach, "you build it, you run it," aligns with Grafana Labs' practices, focusing on decentralized management and maintaining error budgets to balance risk and innovation. The discussion underscores the value of blameless post-incident reviews to foster a culture of accountability and improvement, and emphasizes the significance of centralization for managing infrastructure and tools like Grafana OnCall for efficient incident handling. The conversation also touches on the necessity of keeping systems updated and resilient through regular maintenance and automated processes, ensuring reliability and minimal disruption.