OnPage, the industry’s leading incident alert management system today announced a new integration with Datto’s world-class IT business management platform. For the first time, managed service providers (MSPs) can take advantage of a unified view between Autotask ticketing and incident alert activities and workflows. The integration leverages the platform’s advanced ticketing capabilities by converting service tickets into intelligent alerts, all under one user interface.
According to the ITIL, the framework of best practices for delivering IT services, there is a recommended process flow for how to handle major incidents. Clearly, the IT community would be well served to follow the ITIL’s systematic and professional approach, whose benefits, according to CIO Magazine.
The typical DevOps on-call engineer is responding to alerts, triaging based on service impact, troubleshooting high priority incidents, and taking action to remediate issues. Automation tools like AWS Systems Manager can be a big help in reducing some of the more repetitive work and allowing engineers to focus on the most important tasks.