We’re excited to announce our new Slack app, now available in beta with awesome features including an in-app status page, reporting and upvoting issues, improved status checks, notifications, and more. Let’s review main improvements: 1. Notifications: Receive instant notifications in your selected Slack channels, ensuring timely awareness of service incidents. 2. Check...
25 Best Status Page Examples Showcasing Top Communication Practices
Status pages are a transparent and effective way to inform users of any downtime or incidents disrupting the company’s service. Without a status page, users are left in the dark, and support tickets pile up, affecting your relationship with them and their trust. That’s why having a status page is essential for a business in 2023. By showing your current status and incident history or...
How Did Slack Perform a Year After the Acquisition by Salesforce
Slack is a popular messaging and communication platform used for work, study, groups, and communities. According to Techjury, more than 10 million people used Slack every day in 2022, and 43% of Fortune 100 businesses are paying for Slack subscriptions. On July 21, 2021, Salesforce completed its purchase of Slack for $27.7 billion and announced plans to make Slack an operating unit under...
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10 Essential DevOps Slack Apps
A major goal of DevOps is task and process automation. While total automation is possible to a large extent, DevOps engineers can’t just run a process and then leave it. They need to quickly react in the event of downtime and incidents. Usually, it’s important to react as fast as possible because downtime for even a few minutes can cost from $2,300 to $9,000 according to the Ponemon Institute in...