Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

April 2023

Monitoring: The Rise of Data Observability

There’s an increasingly high cost to poor data quality today. Poor customer data costs companies six percent of their total sales, as per a UK Royal Mail study. And, as per IBM, bad data costs U.S. businesses $3.1 trillion per year. As companies transform into data-driven businesses, we witness a sharp interest in data observability.

Root cause analysis with logs: Elastic Observability's AIOps Labs

In the previous blog in our root cause analysis with logs series, we explored how to analyze logs in Elastic Observability with Elastic’s anomaly detection and log categorization capabilities. Elastic’s platform enables you to get started on machine learning (ML) quickly. You don’t need to have a data science team or design a system architecture. Additionally, there’s no need to move data to a third-party framework for model training.

How to get started with BigPanda Incident Intelligence and Automation powered by AIOps

If you’re in IT operations or manage NOC, SRE, and DevOps teams, chances are your IT environment is growing complex for you and your teams to manage. Any enterprise, large or small, around the globe, is continuously changing its IT stack due to evolving business requirements and significant industry trends. But digital transformation, hybrid infrastructure, DevOps adoption, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are all causing major headaches.

Revolutionize Your Cloud-Native Deployments with CloudFabrix using Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption of cloud-native technologies and practices. Established in 2015 as a part of the Linux Foundation, the CNCF has become a prominent open-source organization that aims to develop a standardized and vendor-neutral cloud-native stack. The CNCF seeks to enable the use of cloud-native computing for building scalable and resilient applications in dynamic environments.

IBM Consulting and CloudFabrix partner to unify Observability, AIOps and Automation

Thanks so much Meenakshi Srinivasan! We are honored to be chosen over the competition and are excited and looking forward to helping our joint enterprise and cloud-native customers. Thanks to the IBM Consulting team for the joint Proof of Technology and joint GTM team.

Top 3 Incident Response Problems AIOps Can Help Your Teams Solve

More data for data’s sake doesn’t help anyone. What organizations need is more information–actionable insight. With data coming from incoming streams of events and alerts, teams don’t have enough time to look at each one. And they struggle to parse and consolidate this data in order to figure out what they need to do next to resolve an incident.

Reduce MTTR and Take Automation to a New Level with PagerDuty Global Event Orchestration

PagerDuty’s Global Event Orchestration is now generally available. Global Event Orchestration’s powerful decision engine enriches events, controls their routing, and triggers self-healing actions based on event data. Teams can use this functionality across any or all services within PagerDuty. This feature is a continued investment in Event Orchestration, demonstrating PagerDuty’s commitment to providing customers with best-in-class automation capabilities.

How to prepare for, deal with, and recover from IT outages

The average cost of an IT outage is $12,900—per minute. And when it comes to a “significant outage,” organizations reported the average overall cost was a whopping $1,477,800. On the latest podcast episode of That’s great IT, I spoke with Scott Lee, AVP for infrastructure and ITOps at Arch Mortgage Insurance Company, part of Arch Capital Group, about how organizations can best navigate IT outages.

Global Event Orchestrations Demo

Frank Emery, Principal Product Manager, joins the Twitch stream to talk about and show off enhancements to Event Orchestration, featuring the new Global Event Orchestrations feature. Global orchestration rules will enable your organization to suppress, annotate, and customize events for all services in your PagerDuty account. This new feature is available to all accounts with AIOps plans.

Introducing PagerDuty AIOps: Harnessing the Power of AI to Transform Modern Operations for the Enterprise

Today, PagerDuty launched a new AIOps solution to leverage the power of AI, provide built-in automation and build on the company’s foundation data model to transform modern operations for the enterprise. PagerDuty has long suppressed noise to help distributed development teams focus.

How to enrich IT alerts and add context with Data Engineering

I see it daily in my role, IT organizations are paying for best-of-breed monitoring tools but struggle to tie the pieces together between these siloed systems. The wound of these silos is further punctured when incidents arise. Incidents are costly for so many reasons, like wasted company resources, potential revenue loss, customer satisfaction, employee burnout, etc. This is exactly why BigPanda exists, to apply AI to the complex problems IT operations, NOC, SRE, and DevOps teams face daily.

The 7 IT Automations for Highly Effective Organization: IT incident Remediation | Low Disk Space

No organization is immune to outages, unplanned interruptions, or quality reduction of normal service. But having a streamlined response plan can ensure these situations are dealt with more effectively to restore normalcy. In a world where increasingly IT efficiency is being measured by mean time to resolutions, triaging and remediating IT incidents as soon as they occur can directly impact the business in a positive way.
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OpenTelemetry 101: A Non-Technical Guide to Starting Your Open Observability Journey

If you’re involved in IT Operations, you’ve probably heard of OpenTelemetry. It’s a hot topic in the observability industry, and for good reason. OpenTelemetry is a set of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy to collect telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure. This data can then be used to monitor your systems, troubleshoot problems, and improve performance.

Avantra: Deriving Value from Investing in Hyperautomation and AIOps

Hyperautomation and AIOps are two of the most important technologies that are driving the digital transformation of businesses across the globe. The business value of hyperautomation and AIOps is significant. By automating repetitive tasks, hyperautomation helps businesses to save time and reduce costs, while also improving accuracy and efficiency. AIOps, on the other hand, helps businesses to monitor their IT infrastructure in real-time, detect and resolve issues faster, and optimize IT operations, which ultimately leads to better business outcomes.

The AIOps journey: Navigating the path to proactive IT operations

In the modern IT era, most organizations are heavily on their IT infrastructure to stay relevant and competitive. However, managing complex IT systems can be a daunting task, as the volume of data grows and IT environments become more heterogeneous. To address these challenges, many organizations are turning towards artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)—an approach that leverages AI and ML to streamline IT operations, improve efficiency, and reduce downtime.