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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Improve your observability strategy with AIOps

Change is the only constant in the IT landscape. These changes might involve adding new observability tools, retiring existing monitoring systems, establishing new business units, or integrating IT systems from acquisitions. Managing these changes can challenge even expert ITOps teams. Organizing your monitoring setup can seem overwhelming, especially with issues like monitoring gaps, observability redundancy, complex toolsets, or significant technical debt.

Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.6 Release Notes

The Runbook Automation and Rundeck product team are back with release v5.6, featuring some security updates and fixes, plus lots of contributions from Rundeck’s amazing open source community. Plus, Forrest takes us through some of the projects that community members can contribute to themselves, including the documentation and plugins.

Achieving quick time to value with AIOps

AI is everywhere, and while it’s transforming industries, many organizations are still trying to identify how to use it to achieve tangible value. This is especially true for AIOps, where platforms often fall short of the promises to automate IT operations and improve incident response. As a result, many leaders are skeptical about whether AIOps can deliver measurable results quickly or provide outcome-driven value in IT operations.

7 Best Practices for Effective Log Formatting

Logs play a critical role in monitoring your applications and systems in terms of health, system behavior, and problem diagnosis. However, logs can assuredly bring value only if they are structured and well-formatted. Effective log formatting can help identify an issue to fix on time rather than having to sift through unorganized, hard-to-read logs. In this blog, we delve into 7 super-effective practices for production logging to help you maximize your log analysis capabilities.

What is Log Monitoring? Complete Guide for 2024

In today’s complex environments such as cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures, reliable log monitoring is crucial for keeping your systems secure and resilient. Continuous monitoring enables organizations to stay in-control, providing proactive insights into system health and performance. With platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure churning out massive amounts of logs, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

How To Monitor Public Status Pages of Cloud Providers - a Step-by-Step Approach

Incident updates on the public status pages of your cloud providers are often the first indication that they might have an outage. Providers also post updates about upcoming and ongoing maintenance on their status pages. Thus, monitoring your cloud status pages becomes crucial to your business operations. This article will guide you through the process of effectively monitoring such status pages.

Trusting AI for Incident Response: The Role of AI in Modern Incident Management

In an age where every second counts, the swift resolution of IT incidents can mean the difference between maintaining business continuity and enduring significant operational setbacks. As businesses increasingly embrace digitalization, the complexity and volume of incidents rise exponentially. This new reality calls for innovative approaches to incident management—ones that can manage the unpredictability, scale, and urgency of modern IT ecosystems. Enter artificial intelligence (AI).

Integrate Incident Alerts With Discord Using Webhooks

Staying on top of your third-party Cloud and SaaS service outages is crucial to maintain the reliability of your own applications. If Discord is your communication tool of choice, you can keep up with such incidents by pushing these events to a Discord channel. Discord webhooks allow external applications to send messages to specific channels within a Discord server. This article describes how to integrate Discord as a channel in your IncidentHub account using webhooks.

Unlocking Automation: A New IDC Report on Automation Standardization

Innovation in automation is transforming what’s possible in operational dynamics at an unprecedented pace. For modern enterprises, this shift is not just a technological evolution; it’s a strategic imperative. C-suite executives and boardrooms increasingly recognize the potential of technologies like GenAI as powerful tools for enhancing productivity, reducing risk, and optimizing costs.

Building a team for successful AIOps adoption

As pressure increases on enterprise IT teams to streamline processes and reduce downtime, many organizations are looking for new tools and strategies. Customers and stakeholders expect operational efficiency and service reliability. Tools within the AIOps industry can relieve the pressure by reducing alert noise, automating manual workflows, and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR). However, the challenges don’t end at tool purchase.