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Case Study: John Lewis & Partners cuts incident acknowledgment to 1-2 minutes with PagerDuty

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
John Lewis & Partners
Industry
Retail
Challenge
Scaling incident response with rapid deployments
Headline result
MTTA from 10-15 minutes to 1-2 minutes

Key results

1-2 min
Time to acknowledge incidents
Down from 10-15 minutes
3x
Faster service restoration

The challenge

As John Lewis & Partners moved to the cloud and a 'build it, run it' model, it scaled to 60 services with more than 300 microservices and 5,000 deployments a year. The centralized approach of handing code to Operations became impractical, and the retailer needed a more effective incident response process.

The solution

John Lewis & Partners adopted PagerDuty to orchestrate the right response for every incident and route issues directly to the teams that own the services.

PagerDuty has been critical in ensuring we can rapidly respond to digital incidents so we don't lose revenue to our competitors.

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Simon Skelton
Platform & Operations Manager, johnlewis.com

The results, in context

With PagerDuty, John Lewis & Partners reduced time to acknowledge incidents from 10-15 minutes to 1-2 minutes and can now restore service three times faster than before, while gaining greater visibility into operational health.

Products used

PagerDuty PagerDuty Operations CloudPagerDuty PagerDuty Incident Management