Write it down, replay it, ship it: why we build ERDs to build product
How we documented Rootly's proactive incident agent as an interactive ERD you can click, replay and check against the code, and why a static design doc couldn't carry it.
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The Titanic didn't sink for just one reason
Why Root Cause Analysis and the Five Whys stop short, told through the Titanic disaster, and what a contributing-factors approach to incidents reveals.
The hidden cost of vibe coding an incident bot
I built incident bots at two companies, then replaced the one that worked. What vibe coding speeds up, and the ownership costs it doesn't touch.
Why our retrospective template doesn't ask for root cause
The seven sections of the Rootly Retrospective Template, why each one is there, and where AI helps a retrospective and where it should stay out.
Could 2027 be the year you turn off human-in-the-loop remediation?
Installing and configuring a reliability platform is already code. The agents already have the context. The only step still gated on a human is the change itself — here is what would have to be true to ungate it.
Why we’re building a channel at Rootly
Rootly’s Partner Program helps MSPs, VARs, consultants, and systems integrators deliver incident response and on-call solutions with flexibility and support.
Audit-ready incident records: what SOC 2 auditors look for and how to evaluate tools
How to create incident records that hold up in SOC 2 audits and reviews, what evidence auditors ask for, and a checklist for evaluating incident management software on audit readiness.
Nobody wants to review 1,000 lines of AI-generated code
Engineering leaders from CircleCI, Airbyte, Flare, Moloco, and Twingate reveal what their teams use instead of traditional code review.
Investigating CVE-2026-66066 with the Rails Forensics Agent Skills
How I used Claude to investigate KindaRails2Shell and sleep better after the patch.
Best Incident Response Tools for SRE and Platform Engineering Teams
Platform teams buy incident tooling for other teams to use. A comparison built around that constraint — adoption, multi-team governance, and what breaks at scale.
Why Rootly acquired ThinkHive
Why Rootly acquired ThinkHive and what it means for Rootly customers.
Real-time telemetry and deploy correlation: How Rootly's AI SRE finds probable root cause in minutes.
Rootly's AI SRE correlates real-time telemetry and deploys to find probable root cause in minutes.
Can AI Actually Find the Root Cause? Automating Postmortems and RCA
What automation reliably contributes to a post-incident review, what it cannot, and how to run retrospectives that produce fixes instead of documents.
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