The latest News and Information on AIOps, alerting in complex systems and related technologies.
Today’s customers see availability as a given. What do they really want? Bigger, better technology with new features and faster platforms. But, according to our recently released Moogsoft State of Availability Report, teams burn their time, money and energy on incident management. In fact, engineers overwhelmingly report that incident management takes up most of their time.
With advances in the field of IT, the amount of data needed to manage IT Operations has grown. In particular with more complex environments, such as the SaaS world, the amounts of data and raw data needed to manage operations have grown exponentially. Managing data manually has become a waste of professionals' skill sets, which could be better used in analyzing and applying the conclusions drawn from the raw data, and not dealing with basic issues that may arise.
Automation is a smart investment in efficiency, productivity, and profitability. According to VentureBeat, companies that invested in automation technologies began to see results almost immediately, including an average 7% increase in revenues. In total, U.S. companies that adopted automation in 2021 generated an extra $195 billion in revenue per month, adding 7.1 million jobs to the economy.
Moogsoft pioneered AIOps, essentially inventing the market 10 years ago. It is worthwhile revisiting why we did that to understand where we are going. My background is as the founder and inventor of Micromuse Netcool, and the RiverSoft’s OpenRiver technology.
Most engineering teams are no strangers to key performance indicators (KPIs), those metrics tracking progress toward critical goals and targets. Ideally, tech leaders design KPIs to focus teams on what matters and prove their contribution to the company’s overall performance. Of course, KPI data should also uncover critical information that guides informed decision-making. For engineering teams tasked with managing the customer experience, KPIs often track availability.
Engineering teams use a lot of single-domain monitoring tools. In fact, the average team manages and maintains 16 monitoring tools — and up to 40 — according to Moogsoft’s State of Availability Report. While IT leaders select and implement these tools to save teams time, our research finds they do quite the opposite. Engineers spend far and away more time on monitoring than they do on any other task — innovative, value-creating tasks included.
