IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM) tools like Progress’s own What’s Up Gold are the backbone of any IT Operations monitoring strategy. However, these tools are primarily focused on general purpose visibility across a wide range of infrastructure and systems with an emphasis on operational availability and performance.
Ben Treynor Sloss, then VP of Engineering at Google, coined the term “Site Reliability Engineering” in 2003. Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, aims to build and run scalable and highly available systems. The philosophy behind Site Reliability Engineering is that developers should treat errors as opportunities to learn and improve. SRE teams constantly experiment and try new things to enhance their support systems.
We believe that data speaks volumes and that’s why we’ve put together the most shocking 7 stats that we’ve found from our uptime monitoring report. You have to see them to believe them!