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"The whole is more than the sum of its parts," said Aristotle. This quote fits the amazing world of modern IT, where several intricate, interwoven, and intensely dynamic ecosystems come together. Today, every component, from applications and microservices to networks and databases, interacts dynamically. To ensure seamless operations, IT teams are expected to decode the language of these interactions: events and incidents.

In Industrial IoT for real-time monitoring, timely alerts are crucial. While Slack and email notifications are common, they can be easily missed or buried in a flood of other notifications. SMS and WhatsApp on the other hand, offer a level of immediacy and directness that’s hard to ignore.

Observability metrics provide insights into the performance, behavior, and health of applications, systems, and infrastructure — enabling observability practices, which is how a system’s internal state is understood by examining its data. As organizations continue to collect more and more data, observability metrics are a key telemetry signal for observability.

A few weeks ago, we introduced anomaly alerts to early adopters. Today, we’re excited to announce that anomaly alerts are officially in open beta and available to all Sentry users on the Trial, Business, or Enterprise plans.

While incidents like last year’s CrowdStrike outage tend to dominate headlines, far more often, the real battle for Internet Resilience isn’t fought on a global stage. It’s waged in the shadows of financial districts, within overloaded cloud data centers, or a rural ISP’s overtaxed peering points. Traditional monitoring tools, designed for broad strokes, miss these hyper-specific failures.