Ankit Mehta
Founder, Vigiles
Ankit Mehta has spent more than twenty years building and running cloud infrastructure, working across DevOps and enterprise architecture. He founded Vigiles Pte. Ltd. in Singapore to put APAC checks, incident records, on-call routing, status pages, and postmortem drafts on the same timeline.
He is an AWS Community Builder and an Alibaba Cloud MVP, and he is FinOps certified. In 2026 he spoke at AWS Summit Singapore on agentic incident response, covering how AI agents can search, read, and act during an incident.
He writes here about monitoring, incident response, on-call, and the practical work of keeping production reliable.
Posts by Ankit Mehta
- Running Incidents During Ecommerce Peak Sales in Southeast AsiaJuly 30, 2026
- Webhook Ingest: How to Turn Any Observability Tool Into an Incident SourceJuly 28, 2026
- Which Kubernetes Signals Predict Real IncidentsJuly 26, 2026
- Incident Management for Fintech Startups in Southeast AsiaJuly 24, 2026
- MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud Teams: What It Is and Why Your On-Call Engineer Needs to Know ItJuly 22, 2026
- MAS TRM Guidelines and What They Require from Your Incident Management ProcessJuly 20, 2026
- How to Set Meaningful SLAs With Enterprise Customers Without OverpromisingJuly 18, 2026
- PDPA Breach Notification: What Singapore Companies Need in Their Incident Response ProcessJuly 16, 2026
- On-Call Compensation Models: How Engineering Teams Are Handling It in 2026July 14, 2026
- Singapore Data Residency for SaaS: What It Means and Which Monitoring Tools Actually Offer ItJuly 12, 2026
- What Is AIOps? A Grounded Explanation for Engineering Teams That Are SkepticalJuly 10, 2026
- Opsgenie Is Being Phased Out. Here Is What to Do Next.July 8, 2026
- incident.io Review: What It Does Well and Where It Falls ShortJuly 6, 2026
- How Much Does PagerDuty Actually Cost for a 20-Person Engineering Team?July 4, 2026
- What AI Postmortem Generation Actually Does (and What It Cannot Replace)July 2, 2026
- The Status Page Checklist: 12 Things to Have Ready Before the Next IncidentJune 30, 2026
- Incident Communication Templates: Exactly What to Say at Each Stage of an OutageJune 28, 2026
- Five Real Postmortem Examples and What Makes Each One Worth ReadingJune 26, 2026
- Why Check Node Location Determines Whether Your Uptime Data Is RealJune 24, 2026
- The Best PagerDuty Alternatives for Engineering Teams in APACJune 22, 2026
- Your uptime check passed while the service was downJune 18, 2026
- The fishbone diagram for incident root cause analysisJune 16, 2026
- After an incident, MTTR is the wrong thing to brag aboutJune 14, 2026
- Alert fatigue starts with the alert you should not have sentJune 12, 2026
- How to communicate during an outage without making it worseJune 10, 2026
- The restart reflex that wrecks a security investigationJune 8, 2026
- A security incident is not just another outageJune 8, 2026
- Your first on-call shift, and how to get through itJune 6, 2026
- Your incident response has a bus factor of oneJune 4, 2026
- The engineer who knows everything is a risk, not a heroJune 4, 2026
- What a status page is actually forMay 29, 2026
- Runbooks people actually useMay 25, 2026
- Severity levels stop working when everything is a P1May 23, 2026
- The on-call handoff is where incidents get droppedMay 21, 2026
- Blameless does not mean consequence-freeMay 17, 2026
- How Deployment Tracking Cuts Incident Response TimeMay 9, 2026
- Shadow On-Call: How to Onboard New Engineers Without Burning Them OutMay 7, 2026
- What Happens to Your Status Page When Your Product Goes Down?May 3, 2026
- How to Build an On-Call Schedule for the First TimeApril 20, 2026
- SLA vs SLO vs SLI: What Each One Means and Why the Difference MattersApril 2, 2026
- What Is an Escalation Policy and How Do You Build One That Works Under Pressure?March 15, 2026
- The incident report I never wanted to write againFebruary 18, 2026
- How to Write a Postmortem That Changes SomethingFebruary 12, 2026
- The Tool Sprawl Problem: Why Engineering Teams End Up Running Three Incident ToolsFebruary 4, 2026
- TCP Monitoring: What It Tells You That HTTP Checks CannotJanuary 28, 2026
- What Is Incident Management? The Complete Guide to Detecting, Responding to, and Learning From IncidentsJanuary 14, 2026