AIOps myths and how to avoid them Gartner coined the term AIOps in 2016 to refer to the combining of “big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination.” In the five years since, AIOps has grown leaps and bounds — last year, AIOps was at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle.
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons why it’s harder: The architecture of our systems has gotten a lot more sophisticated and complex over the past 20 years. We’re not running monoliths on a few beefy servers these days.