This post highlights some of the features and improvements that we have released in the last two months. If you want to submit your own ideas or vote on existing feature requests, you can now use our public roadmap at roadmap.ilert.com.

Alert fatigue is a serious issue that affects numerous professions, especially in the IT industry. It can lead to neglecting critical events and delaying response times. IT teams need to continuously monitor their systems and applications to avert possible downtime and keep operations running smoothly. However a high number of incoming alerts inundating these teams can make them less responsive. The ramifications of such disregard can severely affect the efficiency and dependability of IT teams.

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In the world of agile development, tracking the progress of work is a critical aspect of the development process. Velocity is a metric that is often used to measure how much work a team can complete in a given period. Velocity is a measurement of the average number of story points (or another unit of work) completed by the team in a sprint. The idea is to track the velocity over time to help the team plan how much work they can realistically complete in a sprint.

When your alerts cover systems owned by different teams, who should be on call? We get this question a lot when talking about SLOs. We believe that great SLOs measure things that are close to the user experience. However, it becomes difficult to set up alerting on that SLO, because in any sufficiently complex system, the SLO is going to measure the interaction between multiple services owned by different teams.

Monitoring tools, also known as observability solutions, are designed to track the status of critical IT applications, networks, infrastructures, websites and more. The best IT monitoring tools quickly detect problems in resources and alert the right respondents to resolve critical issues. Response teams use observability solutions to gain real-time insights into resource availability, stability and performance.