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The Derdack SIGNL4 blog is an essential hub for professionals aiming to boost their alert management and operational response. It delivers expert insights and tips on maximizing SIGNL4 for efficient alerting, team collaboration, and incident management. Ideal for IT, operations, and security teams, this blog offers practical guidance for enhancing response times and operational workflows.

Heartbeat check and more – is your monitoring still alive?

Heartbeat check and more – is your monitoring still alive?

SIGNL4 is a cloud-based mobile alerting and incident response service. Third-party systems like monitoring tools, control systems or IoT sensors detect abnormalities and transmit events to SIGNL4 over the Internet. What if your systems cannot transmit critical events...

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Feature Update: Enhanced security for call routing

Feature Update: Enhanced security for call routing

Our interim update from March 15 adds important security features to call forwarding to on-callers. Three new settings have been added for call routing numbers: PIN Allow callers Block callers PIN From now on you can assign a PIN...

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Integration Options with SIGNL4

Integration Options with SIGNL4

SIGNL4 integrates with various backend systems like IT monitoring, service management, IoT systems, sensors, etc. to automatically alert users and teams about certain incidents. A list of selected tools along with integration descriptions is available in our...

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Scheduling Managers on Duty for Alert Escalation

Scheduling Managers on Duty for Alert Escalation

A question we are hearing often is related to manager escalations, a heavily utilized feature in SIGNL4. Users ask us if those managers can be scheduled. The short answer is 'yes', but you need to use a different feature in SIGNL4 and do a little re-configuration. By...

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How to get support?

How to get support?

This post provides an overview on the variety of options and to contact us, if you are seeking technical or other support from the SIGNL4 team. Though, SIGNL4 is designed as a self-service platform and provides an abundance of resources and help, we 'human' provide...

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A vital alerting solution

A vital alerting solution

This article should give you a first idea of what SIGNL4 does. What do IT security, production monitoring and technical field service have in common? In all these scenarios, the right people need to get notified immediately - in case of technical malfunctions, urgent...

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Building Automated Monitoring with Icinga and SIGNL4

Building Automated Monitoring with Icinga and SIGNL4

How many servers can be managed by one system administrator? This question is not an easy one since it definitely depends on the tasks that need to be operated. However, it´s quite clear that the amount of servers one engineer can manage has increased enormously over...

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Why Net at Work employees are sleeping soundly

Why Net at Work employees are sleeping soundly

Meet a typical challenge of 24/7 IT operations Net at Work is a German IT company with over 100 employees that provides its customers with solutions and tools for digital communication and collaboration. Their product NoSpamProxy offers reliable protection against...

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