Commons Corner

Dear Community,It’s been quite the year. Join us LIVE TOMORROW to look back at Rundeck & PagerDuty Automation’s eventful and innovative 2024. Simply click “attend” at the bottom of this link, and we’ll let you know when we’re live!

We're kicking off 2025 with some exciting updates to help you streamline your operations and enhance your incident management capabilities. This month's release includes new features, improvements to existing functionality, and important announcements about our platform evolution.Check out PagerDuty Platform Release Notes - January 2025.

📢To our Python-using PagerDuty community: we are pleased to announce that we have acquired the “pagerduty” package name, and have migrated pdpyras to pagerduty! All significant changes and new features going forward will be added to the new library. Bug reports and enhancement requests can be submitted to the new GitHub repository: PagerDuty/python-pagerduty. This change is being impleme

Hi all, especially Python users,Given the nature of PagerDuty the product and its APIs, some basic use cases are sufficiently useful and near ubiquitous, making them too important to not implement. For these use cases I am considering breaking a convention of “not making an API for the API”.*A few features in this category that I’ve been considering:Fetch incident notes Create overrides, for all on-call shifts of a given user and time period to another user (or round-robin the shifts among a group of user IDs) Fetch all historical records from all time (i.e. log entries), using a shifting time window to avoid hitting the pagination limit Add abstraction for the bespoke pagination styles of: POST /analytics/raw/incidents GET /alert_grouping_settings Which of these do you think would be the most useful and save the most time? What more general automation use cases do you believe are worth bui

Rundeck 5.8 is ready! Check out new updates and enhancements:Dynamic Cluster Discovery  Description: New EKS (AWS), AKS (Azure), and GKE (Google) resource-model plugins automatically discover new clusters and add the clusters as nodes to the inventory.Customer Value: This reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, and accelerates the deployment of infrastructure changes, enabling teams to scale efficiently. 

Who missed the holiday season? Hey there, fellow code wranglers and server whisperers!'Tis the season to be jolly... and to dodge tech questions like Neo dodges bullets in The Matrix! 🎄💻As we gear up for the annual family gathering extravaganza, I couldn't help but chuckle at this all-too-relatable gem floating around the interwebs. You know the drill - you've barely hung up your coat when Aunt Marge corners you with that gleam in her eye:"Oh, sweetie! You work with computers, don't you? My toaster's been acting up..."Suddenly, your years of containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code expertise vanish faster than a production server during a Black Friday sale. You find yourself channeling your inner Caitlin, mustering all your willpower to utter that magical two-letter

This interactive tour will guide you through essential PagerDuty features, so you can handle incidents seamlessly within your team’s preferred communication platform.💡This tour highlights:🔹 Using slash commands to take action on an incident🔹 Triaging and conducting a post-incident review with PagerDuty Advance🔹Managing an incident and collaborating with responders directly Slack 📍 Why it matters:Save time, reduce friction, and enhance collaboration by keeping all incident management actions right in Slack!👀 Take the Tour Now:Guided Remediation in Slack 

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We're excited to announce PagerDuty’s November 2024 Platform Releases with a series of new features and improvements designed to enhance your incident management experience with PagerDuty.

Hey there, fellow responders! 👋Check out this revolutionary new "serverless" data center I stumbled upon! 🤯Serverless Data Center. Credit: nixCraftBehold the future of computing - it's so serverless, there aren't even any servers! 😂Gone are the days of pesky hardware, blinking lights, and that annoying hum of actual machines doing work. This next-gen facility is the epitome of low maintenance:No servers = No problems! 🎉 Monitoring? More like "ignororing," am I right? 👀 Incident management? The only incident here is how much money we're saving! 💰 Site reliability? More like "sight reliability" - if you can't see any servers, they must be reliable! 👍Just imagine the peace of mind knowing your infrastructure is so cutting-edge, it doesn't even exist! N

Explore a revamped PagerDuty Slack experience, built to streamline incident management in chat, reducing costs and risks in response coordination and communication. New capabilities include:➡️ The ability to create public or private Slack channels exclusively dedicated to one incident, and link up to 3 notification channels to keep dedicated channels uncluttered➡️ The ability to trigger *any* incident action with simple slash commands➡️ Intuitive and interactive help commands (/pd or /pd help) that support planned and unplanned work and provide access to the full directory of slash commands, clickable buttons, and recommended actions.   

💫 Early Access for ‘Service Reassignment(aka Changing an Incident’s Service)’ will begin in December! 💫💚 Open to all Incident Management customers. 💚Please sign up here! Feature Details: Reporters and Responders, rely on PagerDuty’s detection and mobilization routing to ensure the incident’s remediation can begin quickly. When an incident is created on the wrong service, PagerDuty will unblock mitigation by allowing incident responders: To change the incident's service to the correct service,  To determine what information (i.e. Incident U

The largest conference in the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystem is around the corner!Headed to KubeCon in Salt Lake City? Check out some opportunities to engage with PagerDuty and share the Pagey love 💚👉 November 12: Meet the Rundeck by PagerDuty team and fellow open-source automation experts and enthusiasts at our Happy Hour and Meetup! Learn how to create a culture of automation in your organization, exchange ideas, enjoy refreshments and get some PagerDuty swag! 🎉 What: Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup in Salt Lake City📅 When: November 12, 2024, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Mountain Time)📍 Where: 145 Pierpont Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 (next door to Sky SLC)✅ Learn more and regist

Check out the latest features and improvements in PagerDuty’s October 2024 Platform Releases.Here’s a quick look at what’s new:New Incident Workflow Action: Create Post-incident Review Event Orchestration External Data Variables now in Early Access! Terraform support now available for all Alert Grouping Settings APIs Sync PagerDuty notes and ServiceNow case work notes New PagerDuty Advance features in Early Access—including Microsoft Teams support End of Life for Event Rules Coming January 2025➡️ Check out the full release notes for all the details!

Calling out all Rundeck by PagerDuty open-source experts out there!We’re gearing up for next Rundeck by PagerDuty meetups (in-person & virtual), and we want YOU to be one of our rockstar speakers! If you’ve got some cool insights, epic stories, or game-changing tips about your experience with Rundeck by PagerDuty open-source, we’d love to hear from you. This is your chance to shine, share your knowledge, and inspire your fellow community members. Plus, it’s a great way to network and connect with like-minded folks in the industry!If you’re interested (and we hope you are!), visit https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck-meetups, reach out to us at community-team@pagerduty.com, or leave a comment below and let us know your region, topic idea and avai