Alerting is the part of the Grafana open source project that has received the most requests for features and improvements. For some time now, the changes have been minimal, but we’ve been listening to the community. With Grafana 8, our investment in alerting is here.
Cologne, Germany – iLert GmbH, a SaaS company for alerting, on-call management, and uptime monitoring, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon RDS Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that iLert has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
Our human capacity for ingesting information and acting on it, is constant. As the systems we operate grow more complex, we need to make sure we use technology that presents us with only the relevant information we need, exactly when we need it. In aviation, this lesson was learned long ago, and now IT Ops is catching up.
Companies all over the world are realizing that to look professional to their users they need to take control of how they communicate system incidents or maintenance updates. The best way of course to do this is through a beautifully presented status page.
A couple of weeks back, we broke sign-ups. And in the most meta fashion, we learned about this because someone here had the foresight to set up an alert in Sentry to notify us if sign-ups dropped to zero. Getting alerted kicked off our incident response process. A team was formed to tackle “What broke?”, “How do we fix this?”, “How long has this been happening?”, “Are any other services impacted?”, and much more.