Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

IT operations management (ITOM) involves the administration of technology applications and components across an enterprise. To effectively manage your IT operations, you must prioritize capacity management, security, availability, and cost-control of all IT infrastructure and assets. Yet, doing so can put a strain on your enterprise. At AlertOps, we offer a major incident management and response platform designed to help your enterprise manage its IT operations.

Try to imagine a bunch of monkeys running around your data center, pulling cables, trashing routers and wreaking havoc on your applications and infrastructure. Ever more crucial in these days of heated competition between online gaming operators, is player experience. Continuity of operations is “Uber-Alles” and avoiding churn, due to service disruption, is the organizational mantra.

IT incident responders have been inundated with alerts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These engineers must dig through their messages to collect and respond to real alerts for real critical events. This process wastes time and prolongs incident response. The objective is to focus on IT event noise reduction to recognize and resolve real incidents promptly.

Over 700 professionals from some of the most prominent enterprises in the retail, financial, technology, pharma and manufacturing industries attended our two-day “IT Ops Ready” virtual conference.

The idea behind Incident Management is to be ready. Not ready for anything, as that can be an unrealistic expectation, but ready to respond when the unexpected inevitably happens. DevOps teams often create incident playbooks in order to ensure they are as ready as possible to handle situations as they arise. Luckily, there is some amazing documentation on how to do just that from our friends at PagerDuty.

The global pandemic has drastically accelerated digital transformation initiatives and forced organizations to reimagine customer service by having them take on the incident commander role in managing and responding to customer issues and engaging with customers. In addition to prioritizing digital services, many businesses have migrated to the cloud to increase business agility, develop and deliver new features faster, and meet the growing demands of end users.

On the quest to provide the best uptime, software platforms depend on complex interconnected microservices. This often leaves them vulnerable to cascading failures creating a massive deluge of alerts from monitoring tools when things go wrong. In this blog, we explore how Squadcast can be configured to curb alert noise for better productivity with the help of the most advanced deduplication features.

Welcome back once again! This is the third and final part of this series on using the Elastic Stack with ServiceNow for incident management. In the first blog, we introduced the project and set up ServiceNow so changes to an incident are automatically pushed back to Elasticsearch. In the second blog, we implemented the logic to glue ServiceNow and Elasticsearch together through alerts and transforms as well as some general Elasticsearch configuration.

Canadian Pacific (CP) is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881. It was CP that connected the country and became Canada’s first transcontinental railway. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 13,000 miles of track across Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific initially introduced Enterprise Alert in 2016 to increase speed and effectiveness of incident callouts to information workers, and staff in various departments.