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The Importance of Communicating Scheduled Maintenance to End-Users

Often, outages are planned. In fact, in most organizations, outages are typically not caused by something going wrong, but because some kind of IT operation requires your team to take a system temporarily offline. Communicating scheduled maintenance is just as important, if not more important than alerting users to unplanned outages.

Why Observability Matters to Site Reliability Engineers

This is the first in a three-post series themed around Ops-led DevOps, where I’ll explore the relationship between observability and a set of software delivery lifecycle practices that support the adoption of DevOps practices and the transition from project to product-centric ways of working. I’ll start with Site Reliability Engineering, move onto Value Stream Management and finish with Continuous Delivery.

Get alerts in Microsoft Teams with our newest integration

What tool does your staff use most to communicate? If you’re like a lot of other companies, you may have recently started using Microsoft Teams. In April of 2020, Microsoft reported having 75 million users with a push of 31 million new users due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. At Uptrends, we think it is important that our customers can get their monitoring alerts using the communication channels they use most, so we’ve added a new Microsoft Teams integration.

Deliver CASB policy alerts via OnPage to ensure rapid response

A simple, efficient way to deliver CASB policy alerts, ensuring that the SOC teams are notified of policy breaches immediately in order to start the incident triage and remediation process using OnPage incident alert management system. About OnPage Organizations large and small, are adopting OnPage's intelligent alerting solution, ensuring that encrypted, secure critical incident notifications are NEVER missed and are always delivered to the right person at the right time.

The New Normal: Shifting IT Strategies in the Wake of the Pandemic

There’s next to nothing in the world that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19. We’ve now reached the stage of the pandemic where we’re evaluating the effect on every part of our lives. Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with IT leaders and reflecting on how the business technology landscape has been shifting.

Good Catch: Cloud Cost Monitoring

Aside from ensuring each service is working properly, one of the most challenging parts of managing a cloud-based infrastructure is cost monitoring. There are countless services to keep track of—including storage, databases, and computation—each with their own complex pricing structure. Monitoring cloud costs is quite different from other organizational costs in that it can be difficult to detect anomalies in real-time and accurately forecast monthly costs.

Improve Manageability of NetApp Infrastructure with AIOps-Powered IT Operations

In this interactive webinar, we’ll review how Maple Networks and OpsRamp are bringing AI and machine learning to drive down the cost and complexity of monitoring and managing NetApp infrastructure stacks, such as Flexpod, FAS, and HCI.

Eliminating the Multi-Cloud Noise with Razor Technology and OpsRamp

Razor Technology's vision is "to reinvent what it means to be an IT solutions provider through best-in-class technology, industry-leading expertise, and long-term partnerships built on mutual trust with our customers." They have a broad set of solutions, from Digital Transformation to Managed Cloud Services.

5 Tips for Getting Alert Fatigue Under Control

What happens when you receive a notification that something is wrong with your system and you have no clue what it means, or why you’re receiving that alert? Maybe you have to parse through the alert conditions to suss out what the alert indicates, or maybe you need to ping a coworker and ask. Not knowing what to do with an alert also contributes to alert fatigue, because it increases the toil and time required to respond.