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Chapter Ten: In Which Sarah Resigns from Animapanions and Heads Off to Start Up a Competitor

This is the tenth chapter in The Observability Odyssey, a book exploring the role that intelligent observability plays in the day-to-day life of smart teams. In this chapter, our DevOps Engineer, Sarah, throws in the towel at C&Js and moves on to build her own business.

Chapter Eleven: In Which James Speaks with the Industry Analysts

This is the eleventh chapter in The Observability Odyssey, a book exploring the role that intelligent observability plays in the day-to-day life of smart teams. In this chapter, our IT Ops Leader, James, speaks with the analysts about what’s happening in the AIOps space.

We now support Pushover's priority messages

When we detect something wrong with your site (it is down, a broken link is detected, the certificate is invalid, ...), we can notify you via one of the many notification channels we support. One of those channels is Pushover, an excellent service to send native notifications to mobile devices. We have supported Pushover since we launched a couple of years ago. Now, we've added a nice option that several of our users we're asking for: setting the priority.

Is Data the biggest barrier for AIOps adoption?

Much like oil, data that is available in a raw form is not useful at all. It has to go through various steps before AI/ML could touch it and derive valuable!! Check out the latest video by Shyam Sreenivasan, where he talks about DataOps and why you should automate your data pipelines to run AIOPS at scale.

Improving your team's on-call experience

Your engineers probably dislike going on-call for your services. Some might even dread it. It doesn't have to be this way. With a few changes to how your team runs on-call, and deals with recurring alerts, you might find your team starting to enjoy it (as unimaginable as that sounds). I wrote this article as a follow-up to Getting over on-call anxiety.