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Setting up IT budget for 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic crisis has proved to be a catalyst for change for organizations. Businesses have been spurred to continue investing more in IT budget to secure and support their remote workforce operations in spite of slow revenue growth due to the pandemic. According to a survey of more than 1,000 businesses by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, 76 percent of them plan on implementing long-term IT changes in their IT budget and 44 percent plan on accelerating their digital transformation plans.

Netdata and StackPulse: Per-second metrics meet automated remediation

Teams of all types use Netdata to monitor the health of their nodes with preconfigured alarms and real-time interactive visualizations, and when incidents happen, they troubleshoot issues with thousands of per-second metrics on Netdata Cloud. But based on the complexity of the team and the infrastructure they monitor, some parts of their incident management, such as pre-planned communication and escalation processes, or even automated remediation, need to happen outside of the Netdata ecosystem.

Getting Started with BigPanda - Overview

Welcome to the first installment of the Getting Started with BigPanda video series. BigPanda’s "No Experts Required" setup can be broken down into six steps: Out of the box integrations (outbound and inbound), normalization and enrichment, correlation, environments, collaboration & sharing and user management. In this video we will provide an overview of each, and subsequent videos will provide more in-depth information into each area.

Getting Started with Normalization and Enrichment

In BigPanda, normalization is the translation of payloads from different systems into a consistent taxonomy. Enrichment is the process of adding context to the alerts by associating them with relevant information such as topology maps, runbook links, metadata and more. In this video we are going to walk you through a powerful technique for normalizing & enriching alerts called Custom Tags.

Getting Started with Correlation

Correlation is a method of grouping related monitoring alerts into a single high-level incident. In this video, we'll explain how BigPanda utilizes pattern recognition to automatically detect which alerts are likely related; correlates them into high-level, actionable incidents; and allows you to see, edit and test the correlation patterns before going into production.