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Top tips to make Round Robin Scheduling successful for your team

You may have heard of Round Robin Scheduling before and thought to yourself, is this right for my team? Understanding how Round Robin Scheduling can be used and what teams it works best for is important when considering this method of on-call. Additionally, it comes with some pitfalls you’ll want to avoid, as well as best practices to adopt. In this blog post, we’ll share everything you need to know about Round Robin Scheduling within PagerDuty and how to get started.

AppNeta is Now Part of Broadcom and Will Lead Industry in Network Visibility Anywhere

Broadcom officially closed on the acquisition of AppNeta on Jan 31, 2022. This marks a new beginning for AppNeta and the Broadcom network monitoring software business. AppNeta will take the lead in our vision to enable Network Visibility Anywhere, focusing especially on operational blind spots and experience in the last mile. We aim to ensure a quality digital experience anywhere while working, transacting, communicating and automating.

Why we adopted Microsoft Teams-and what others can learn from it

Collaboration apps, such as Microsoft Teams, have become critical during the pandemic because they enable employees to stay connected and engaged while they work. Just how critical? Microsoft reported 270 million Teams users in January 2022, up from 75 million in April 2020, a few weeks into the pandemic, according to ZDNet. Teams and similar apps have proven essential to the remote workplace. ServiceNow is one of the companies benefiting from Teams adoption.

STOP PRESS: How website downtime affects your brand

Website downtime happens to the best of us, even the likes of mammoth websites like Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter all experience it. Luckily for these big companies, they’re so established and have such a huge customer base that downtime is unlikely to make them lose a large proportion of them. It will, however, cost them larger amounts of money for every second that their website is down. Take Amazon as a prime example.

A Guide to Systematically Identify and Reduce False Positives

False positives waste time, cause alert fatigue, and can be extremely expensive. Any time spent by the ITOps teams on false positives is an avoidable cost affecting the company's top line. False positives lead to alert fatigue. ITOps teams regularly identify it as a cause of overwhelm, so much so that they mentally shut the alerts off. They become desensitized to it and begin to ignore it, consciously or otherwise.

How HEAL Augments Your Monitoring Setup

In 2021, having too many monitoring tools doesn't necessarily mean you have 100% uptime. In this ebook, we discuss the gaps in what the industry needs out of an AIOps/APM tool and why current technologies are failing. We will also give a primer on how HEAL bridges these gaps to help you achieve the holy grail of 100% uptime with proactive, preventive AIOps.

Hybrid Cloud and the Network Observability Gap

Organizations are adopting cloud in a big way. Some went whole hog right away, but most took a hybrid approach for security, compliance, or just to move more cautiously. No matter the reason, hybrid clouds can leave network pros a little, well, foggy. No longer can you see, fix, and run your network across your data center, private clouds, public clouds, and SaaS. Ai ai ai! Never fear! Read this short white paper on how to achieve network observability nirvana in your hybrid cloud.

How to Continuously Monitor Critical Cloud Services with Synthetic Testing

A guide to assuring performance and availability of critical services across public and hybrid clouds and the internet You're responsible for monitoring the performance and availability of critical cloud services. If your users start complaining about slow response times, it's tough to get started when you can't even see where the problem is. This is where synthetic testing comes in - to help you find problems before they affect your users. This means fewer complaints and happier customers!