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Severe weather in South Carolina comes with the territory, and for a local communications service provider like HTC, that translates to service outages for the internet, streaming video, phone, and wireless networks it provides to predominantly rural communities. When these events strike, the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at HTC faces enormous pressure not only to maintain services, but to prioritize customer support efforts and restore services as quickly as possible.

Traditional systems monitoring solutions poll various counters (typically simple network management protocol [SNMP]), pull in data and react to it. If an issue requiring attention is found, an event is triggered—perhaps an email to an administrator or the firing of an alert. The admin subsequently responds as needed. This centralized pull approach is resource-intensive. Due to the pull nature of the requests, it results in data gaps and data that may not be granular enough.

We are happy to announce that the RabbitMQ integration is available for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. RabbitMQ is one of the most popular open source message brokers, used worldwide at both small startups and large enterprises. It is easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud, and supports multiple messaging protocols.

What is NLP Natural Language Processing is a specialized subdomain of Machine Learning which is generally concerned with the interactions between the human and machine using a human verbal or written language. NLP helps in processing huge volumes of text which would take a significant amount of time for a human to comprehend and process otherwise. Hence a lot of organizations take advantage of NLP to gain useful insights out of their text and free formatted data.

If you’re wasting precious time and resources responding to customer emails and phone calls whenever an incident arises - now sounds like a good time to set up your very own status page! A Statuspal status page is a professional and effective way to communicate incidents and maintenance updates internally for your team or publicly to your customers. You would be right in thinking that there are many options available and one of the largest operators in the market is Status.io.