Why is now the right time to combine Steadybit and PagerDuty for system protection?

The recent CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 highlighted significant vulnerabilities in system readiness. Combining Steadybit's proactive resilience capabilities with PagerDuty's real-time incident management ensures that teams can uncover vulnerabilities before they lead to disruptions and respond rapidly when incidents occur.

What role does Steadybit play in proactive resilience?

Steadybit enables teams to identify and address vulnerabilities before they escalate into critical incidents. By simulating failures and testing systems under stress, organizations can enhance their preparedness and resilience against potential threats.

How does PagerDuty ensure rapid response during disruptions?

PagerDuty provides a comprehensive incident management platform that facilitates immediate notification and coordination among team members during disruptions. This ensures that teams can act quickly, minimizing downtime and mitigating the impact of incidents on operations.

What lessons were learned from the CrowdStrike outage regarding system resilience?

The CrowdStrike outage revealed a widespread lack of readiness among organizations to handle major incidents. It underscored the necessity of both preparation—through proactive measures like those offered by Steadybit—and swift action, as facilitated by PagerDuty, to enhance overall resilience.

How can organizations prepare for future major incidents?

Organizations can prepare for future incidents by integrating tools like Steadybit and PagerDuty. This combination allows them to proactively identify vulnerabilities while also establishing robust incident response protocols, ensuring they are equipped to handle disruptions effectively.

What impact did the CrowdStrike outage have on global operations?

The CrowdStrike outage resulted in billions of dollars in losses and significantly disrupted global operations. This incident serves as a critical reminder of the importance of system protection measures and effective incident management strategies.

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Why Now Is the Time to Combine Steadybit and PagerDuty for System Protection

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18.02.2025 Summer Lambert - 5 minute read

Why Now Is the Time to Combine Steadybit and PagerDuty for System Protection

The CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 served as a stark reminder of the challenges modern IT systems face. A faulty Falcon sensor update caused millions of Windows-based systems to crash, grounding flights, delaying financial transactions, and costing Fortune 500 companies an estimated $5 billion. This was not just a technical issue but a wake-up call for IT and business leaders to reassess how they prepare for disruptions.

According to a PagerDuty survey, 83% of IT executives admitted that the incident exposed significant gaps in their organizations’ readiness for service disruptions. Focusing exclusively on security is no longer enough. Operational resilience must take center stage, ensuring systems can withstand and recover from unexpected failures. By using Steadybit and PagerDuty together, organizations can take a more comprehensive approach to keep systems running smoothly.

Why Combine Steadybit and PagerDuty Now?

Proactive Resilience with Steadybit

Steadybit enables teams to uncover vulnerabilities before they escalate into full-scale incidents. Through chaos engineering experiments, teams can test how systems handle stress, identify weaknesses, and strengthen operations. By simulating potential failures, organizations gain actionable insights into how to make their systems more resilient.

Real-Time Incident Management with PagerDuty

PagerDuty ensures rapid response when disruptions occur. It helps teams act quickly, coordinate effectively, and reduce downtime. While Steadybit addresses potential risks through proactive testing, PagerDuty ensures that teams can respond efficiently if an issue arises.

How Steadybit Helps PagerDuty Users

Steadybit enhances your PagerDuty setup by allowing you to test your incident response procedures in real-world conditions – before a real outage happens. With Steadybit, you can simulate failures and disruptions to validate that your alerts trigger correctly, your escalation policies work as expected, and your teams respond efficiently. This helps train your on-call engineers in a controlled environment, ensuring they’re prepared for high-pressure situations. Additionally, Steadybit enables you to validate and refine your runbooks by uncovering gaps or outdated steps that could slow down resolution. By continuously testing and improving your incident response, Steadybit ensures that when a real issue occurs, your team is ready to act with confidence.

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Lessons from CrowdStrike: Resilience Requires Both Preparation and Action

The CrowdStrike outage revealed a widespread lack of readiness for large-scale disruptions. Many organizations have focused on security at the expense of operational resilience. Steadybit and PagerDuty complement each other by addressing this imbalance. Steadybit prepares systems to handle stress and mitigate risks, while PagerDuty ensures that teams are ready to act when incidents occur.

This dual approach bridges the gap between anticipating issues and managing them when they arise, providing the confidence to face future disruptions.

Preparing for the Next Major Incident

The CrowdStrike outage cost billions and disrupted global operations. Businesses cannot afford to be unprepared for the next large-scale incident. By integrating Steadybit’s chaos engineering capabilities with PagerDuty’s incident management platform, organizations can stay ahead of potential disruptions. This approach ensures systems are resilient, teams are prepared, and operations continue without major interruptions.

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