One of the most common complaints about SCOM is the noisiness of alerts from Management Packs. Getting on top of these alerts can be a huge challenge and often the thing that most gets in the way of an organization getting value out of SCOM. In SquaredUp for SCOM 4.7, our recent feature-packed update, we bring you three new alert-handling super-powers to help you get on top of alerts.

SIGNL4’s core job is to reliably alert operational teams. However, we’ve been asked a couple of times if SIGNL4 can also monitor a website’s uptime. Well, we developed an app and it is now available in the SIGNL4 app gallery. You can now monitor the availability of websites AND get instantly alerted if is goes down. This can be set up in minutes. The new SIGNL4 app “Website Monitoring” checks the availability of a website and queries its URL in configurable intervals.

As the business world continues to integrate AI and machine learning to better manage big data processes, one area that arguably has benefitted the most is business monitoring. From IT management to business intelligence, the last few years have seen a drastic shift in how companies are monitoring their data.

CloudFabrix AIOps 360 solution can ingest alerts, events, metrics and from various monitoring tools to perform event correlation, alert noise reduction and enable incident resolution acceleration. Learn more about CloudFabrix AIOps 360 In this blog I will cover Zabbix integration aspects with our AIOps 360 solution. Zabbix is one of the popular open source monitoring platforms used by many enterprises and MSPs, including some of our customers.

Incident response playbooks are a set of actions that need to be executed by your incident repsonders depending on the nature of the outage. Having well defined incident response playbooks can be extremely critical, especially during high customer impact events, that you would typically classify as Sev-0 incidents.

Electronic health records (EHR) are real-time patient health record systems made to securely share patient information with authorized users. Users include those in medical labs, imaging facilities, pharmacies and emergency departments. Essentially, EHRs provide medical information to everyone involved in the patient-care continuum. OnPage continuously explores new ways to expand its value and enhance business processes and workflows to clients.

In this post, we learn how to use tasks in combination with checks for monitoring with InfluxDB.