The ITOps world is a harsh working environment where ITOps personnel are expected to minimize the business impact of incidents at all hours of the day—regardless of the impact to themselves or their families. As more companies undergo digital transformation, the number of alerts and interruptions flowing to IT first responders will continue to increase.
In the United States, it’s almost that time of year again where we count our blessings and give thanks. For retail workers, it’s also that time of year where they prepare for the onslaught of eager shoppers who waited hours in line to run into stores to get their hands on doorbuster deals (sometimes knocking down the employees in the process).
Whether it’s a scheduled maintenance or an unexpected outage, downtime is time your solutions are out of action and unavailable for use. Long or frequent periods of downtime have significant costs to the company, and ultimately undermine customer trust. So what is MTTR? And how can improving MTTR reduce downtime? Below are four key metrics to get you started.