Continuous advancement of cloud technologies, alongside their ever increasing stability, adoption, and ease of use, has led to a rise in native cloud applications, possibly over a larger pool of heterogeneous resources or in multi-cloud approaches. This, in turn, brought unprecedented levels of complexity in the context of cloud computing. Such complexity may cause a series of events and incidents that are difficult to be intercepted or managed on time, in a manner that also ensures the overall Quality of Services and existing Service-Level Agreements.Our special issue presents advances in several key areas that are highly relevant for automated cloud incident management: a continuous approach for reliable cloud native applications, novel approaches for Metal-as-a-Service, centered around an advanced reservation system, or development of a framework based on the concept of secure SLA, in order to deal with specific cloud security issues.