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The latest News and Information on IT Operations Management and related technologies.

What's New: Updates to PagerDuty Process Automation Software & PagerDuty Runbook Automation, Integrations, and More!

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Recent development and app updates from the product team include PagerDuty® Process Automation, our Partner Integrations and App Ecosystem, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates. We continue to help customers automate everywhere to optimize cloud operations and reduce the amount of issues escalated to other teams.

Minimizing Data Science Model Drift by Leveraging PagerDuty

PagerDuty has an Early Warning System (EWS) model which helps the Customer Success and Sales departments ascertain the wellness of existing PagerDuty customers based on product usage and external business factors. This Early Warning System model has become critical infrastructure and the first line of defense in identifying poor product usage that could result in account churn.

The relationships between ITOM and DevOps

As explained in the earlier “What’s ITOM?” blog, there are various definitions of IT Operations Management (ITOM). This variation has a knock-on for everything related to ITOM, including the relationship between ITOM and DevOps. This issue is further complicated when people and organizations have different views of what DevOps is and isn’t. Hence, we must start with a single definition for ITOM and DevOps.

What is ITOM and how is it different from ITSM?

This is an increasingly popular question for IT professionals. In part, this is driven by the need for organizations to use IT Operations Management (ITOM) in conjunction with more traditional IT service management (ITSM) because of the ever-increasing reliance on technology to enable business operations and outcomes. To help with your understanding, this blog explains what ITOM is, why it is needed, and what it entails.

What is Event Orchestration? 7 ways to start using this powerful new feature from PagerDuty to reduce noise and automate away manual toil today

Does your team deal with too much noise? Does your heart sink a bit when you think about how much your rulesets have sprawled in order to manage your event processing needs? That’s why we released Event Orchestration earlier this year to help teams reduce the amount of manual work that goes into event management. Event Orchestration is the next evolution of our Event Rules feature set, which helps to route, enrich, and modify events on ingest to remove noise and automate processes.

Release Notes: Process Automation and Rundeck OSS 4.4.0

Product managers Forrest Evans and Jake Cohen show off new features and enhancements in PagerDuty Process Automation and Rundeck Open Source version 4.4.0. Version 4.4.0 features two new plugins for #AWS:#Lambda Custom (ephemeral) scripts#ECS/#Fargate Commands For more details on other improvements in this release, see the full Release Notes.

Cultural Adoption of Automation

You're convinced that automation of standard, basic tasks is the right way to go for your team. You want to get your teams """"out of the muck"""" and into more value-added tasks, such as the creation of new features, or launching new clients, or expansion into new territories. How do you build consensus with your teams? With your leadership? To convince your executive team that automation is the way to go, they'll insist on metrics to capture their return, whether through increased agility, improved service stability, and so on.

360º Fireside Chat with PagerDuty, Lisbon's Newest Tech Employer

Joining João Freitas, GM & Engineering Site Lead in Lisbon for this 360º Fireside Chat about PagerDuty’s projects, challenges, the technical parts of PagerDuty and how everything comes together and where we are today and where we’re going in the future.