Today, IT operations teams have to process large volumes of events or alarms in near real-time in order to protect service levels, stay competitive, and deliver a great experience to customers. If it takes too long for teams to spot and repair issues, an organization runs the risk of significant business service downtime, SLA penalties, and brand reputation damages. As IT landscapes continue to grow in scale and complexity, guarding against these risks becomes increasingly difficult.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve recently launched new and improved alerting features which have been rolled out to users across all of Logit.io’s operating regions. As part of these improvements, we have sought to improve platform usability and have now included a new menu from which users can readily configure a number of popular alert types straight from our pre-configured templates.

We often hear from Grafana Cloud users who are asking for guidelines on how to write better alerts on synthetic monitoring metrics and get notified when synthetic monitoring detects a problem. We already ship a predefined alert in Grafana Cloud synthetic monitoring. A predefined alert that we ship is alerting on the probe_all_success_sum metric and makes use of the alert sensitivity config to create multiple Grafana Cloud alerting rules. Check out synthetic monitoring alerting docs for details.

IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), digital optimization, and the creation of new digital business models are all examples of digital transformation. The concept of combining company processes with agility, intelligence, and automation to build operational models that delight consumers while also improving performance is known as digital operations.

With the AlertOps ServiceNow integration, you can automatically send updates to stakeholders. Set each update to use the notification channel you choose (email, voice, SMS, mobile app, and chat). Set triggers to send alerts on any condition, such as SLA breaches, status changes or any custom field change. Automatically updates at time points that you set. AlertOps also logs all activities in ServiceNow so you can track everything in one place.

With the AlertOps ServiceNow integration, during a major incident, you can automatically send notifications to targeted groups of users (managers, stakeholders, customer service). Each group can have its own unique status update fields, so you can send contextual information with dynamic updates to each group at regular intervals, and a final message when the incident is resolved. Set each notification to use the notification channel you choose (email, voice, SMS, mobile app, and chat).

Amazon EventBridge is an AWS serverless event bus service making it easier to build event-driven applications. It uses events generated from your applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and other AWS services. It delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources to target services like AWS Lambda. You can also set up routing rules to determine the destination where you wish to send the data and build decoupled application architectures.

We have released another update for Enterprise Alert 9 (version 9.2) which enhances the flood protection mechanism. This will help you to setup scenarios where you do not want the flood protection to be active for every notification channel. Read all details in this article.

Gartner predicted, by 2020 90% of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) would have been deployed in enterprises through “AIOps” – a combination of machine learning and operations. An AIOps approach has the potential to reduce costs and risks by automating routine IT Operations tasks while returning more control over decisions to the organization.