Announcements
FireHydrant news, announcements, and other important things to share
Our fully-redesigned incident response experience delivers a more intuitive workflow
2022-07-19
The incident response experience on FireHydrant has been fully redesigned for more intuitive workflows. Anyone on your team can easily onboard into an incident and navigate the response process — and you can enforce best practices along the way.
June releases: discover a faster and more intuitive FireHydrant
2022-06-27
FireHydrant’s June releases deliver a more intuitive Slack app, increased Runbook automation and conditional logic, smarter retros, and more.
FireHydrant is now free for small teams
2022-03-14
We envision a world where all software is reliable, and today we’re making that vision more of a reality for small teams. Today, FireHydrant is pleased to announce our new Free Tier for small teams!
An easier way to create runbooks
2022-02-17
The experience of creating runbooks has been redesigned to make it easier for you to see the most important information. Our updates also introduce the ability to clone a runbook by selecting “Copy” on a saved runbook.
Improved routing for Jira Cloud and Jira Server tickets with multi-project support
2022-02-15
You can now route your incident tickets and follow-up work to remediation teams' Jira projects directly from FireHydrant, saving you valuable time and clean-up work
It's not ready for production until it has an Operational Readiness Checklist
2022-02-11
Operational Readiness Checklist adds a layer of accountability and resilience to improve your service catalog best practices. Learn more to help improve your service adoption and incident response.
Announcing our newest integration: Confluence
2022-01-26
Starting today, incident and retrospective data that lives inside FireHydrant is now easier than ever to export to your Confluence account.
FireHydrant expands Reliability Platform with Service Catalog
2021-10-06
Today, we are happy to announce the launch of Service Catalog to help you better manage, query, and learn about the services that exist in your infrastructure.
Article: FireHydrant announced $23M Series B to grow disaster management platform
2021-08-10
Ron Miller from Techcrunch reports on FireHydrant's Series B funding.
We’ve raised a $23M Series B to help us get to a world where all software is reliable
2021-08-10
We envision a world where all software is reliable, and we’re on a mission to help every company that builds or operates software get closer to 100% reliability. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $23 million to help us further our goal.
Press Release: FireHydrant Secures $23M Series B
2021-08-10
New funding led by Harmony Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Menlo Ventures and Work-Bench to accelerate the company’s focus on product innovation and expansion.
Just call us "Major Incident Software Innovation of the Year"
2021-04-08
We won an award! The MIM Awards recognize and reward effective Major Incident Management within the global IT Major Incident Management sector - and we won the 2020 Major Incident Software Innovation of the Year!
Announcing FyreHydrant Festival and the 2021 Line-up
2021-04-01
Announcing the first annual FyreHydrant Festival and the 2021 line-up
Article: 46 enterprise tech startups to bet your career on in 2021
2021-02-13
Business Insider looked at a broad range of attributes, including the strength of the founding team; the investors and their caliber; valuations, recent and total funding based on estimates from PitchBook; and the product or service the startup offers.
Article: New York tech startups see jump in funding activity
2021-01-27
Venture-capital firms in 2020 pumped $5.8 billion into New York technology startups. Companies developing risk-management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies are among those getting the biggest shares of the investments.
Article: ‘DX on steroids’ — the explosion of cloud in 2020
2020-09-30
It’s no secret that the cloud has become the enterprise technology hero of 2020. COVID-19 ensured any kind of backburner considerations shot to the front of IT stakeholders’ minds.
Article: Cloud Startups Ride Wave of Pandemic-Fueled Investments
2020-09-25
Cloud-computing startups have landed new investments and customer accounts during the coronavirus pandemic as many companies have accelerated cloud-related projects to keep ahead of the competition.
Article: FireHydrant lands $8M Series A for disaster management tool
2020-05-20
A technology adventure: First the audio wasn’t working correctly on Zoom, then Google Meet. It was like a case study in what FireHydrant is designed to do — help companies manage incidents and recover more quickly when things go wrong with their services.
Article: This engineer built a tool to help him automatically respond to IT issues during his day job and then turned it into a startup that just raised $8 million
2020-05-20
When Bobby couldn't find the tools he needed to effectively tackle incidents, he built one. Now announcing FireHydrant's $8M Series A.
Announcing Our Series A
2020-05-20
For the past year we've seen over 50,000 hours of incidents, 20,000 runbook actions automated, and 10 million deploy events, and we're happy to announce our $8M Series A led by Menlo Ventures.
Article: How you react when your systems fail may define your business
2019-10-31
Just around 9:45 a.m. Pacific Time on February 28, 2017, websites like Slack, Business Insider, Quora and other well-known destinations became inaccessible. For millions of people, the internet itself seemed broken.
Announcing Runbooks
2019-10-17
Announcing our most powerful feature yet: FireHydrant Runbooks is a better way to automate your incidents.
Announcing FireHydrant, a Tool to Manage Incidents
2019-04-02
Today we're publicly launching FireHydrant, a tool to manage incidents. Read more about our journey.