Category: IT Alerting

June 3, 2022 | by Ritika Bramhe
xmatters alternatives

Evaluating xMatters Alternatives in 2024 (Updated)

(Blog Updated on July 22, 2024): Seconds count when mission-critical IT systems break down. Customers are accustomed to seamless experiences, and any impact on the end-user experience due to system breakdown can drive them away. In parallel, the digital technology estate is becoming increasingly complex as organizations continue to grow their tech stack to bring … Continued

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June 1, 2022 | by Ritika Bramhe

Email & SMS: Not Good Enough for IT Monitoring

Are you an IT Administrator staring at your phone’s screen all day waiting for an email or text?  Have you ever missed a CRITICAL email or text because it didn’t grab your attention? Using email and SMS for network alerts has been a widely used practice since the early 90’s, but is not an effective … Continued

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March 9, 2022 | by Christopher Gonzalez
Azure Sentinel

What Is Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Why Is It Important?

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is an intelligent, next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) solution designed to detect threat anomalies. Azure Sentinel is also categorized as a security orchestration automated response (SOAR) service that expedites the incident detection and event response process for cybersecurity teams. Azure Sentinel provides an extra layer of security to protect critical … Continued

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February 8, 2022 | by OnPage Corporation
burnout

Feel the Burnout

Eleven Practical Ways for DevOps Engineers to Better Manage Their Work Environment   At OnPage, we know the importance of DevOps burnout and have explored the topic in different formats such as our eBook and video. The importance of the issue is highlighted by the following components: Decreased employee happiness: Employees become less satisfied and … Continued

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February 7, 2022 | by OnPage Corporation
Kubernetes Monitoring

Kubernetes Monitoring: A Beginner’s Guide

What Is Kubernetes Monitoring? Kubernetes monitoring involves tracking application performance and resource utilization across cluster components, such as pods, containers, and services. The goal is to gain visibility into the health and security of your clusters. Kubernetes provides built-in features for monitoring, including the resource metrics pipeline that tracks several metrics like node CPU and … Continued

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December 10, 2021 | by Christopher Gonzalez
Mean Time Between Failures

Uncovering the Importance of Mean Time Between Failures

In the IT world, application service providers (ASPs) build customer trust by ensuring the continuous, uninterrupted availability of their services and software. Service availability allows customers to operate normally and generate revenue without being directly impacted by their providers’ system failures.  Though providers work to ensure system uptime, they are often challenged by unexpected technical … Continued

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November 12, 2021 | by Christopher Gonzalez
Automated Alerting

4 IT Challenges Addressed by OnPage Automated Alerting

IT organizations are challenged with delivering quick, effective resolution to customers’ database, hardware or software downtime issues. Contractually binding service-level agreements (SLAs) place further pressure on IT engineers to accelerate incident resolution time and minimize downtime. Though engineers are obligated to meet their SLAs, they are unable to do so without the help of an … Continued

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September 15, 2021 | by Ritika Bramhe
DevOps Burnout

Best Practices to Reduce DevOps Burnout

As software development teams struggle with spotty, siloed software delivery cycles, the DevOps approach provides relief by unifying stakeholders to achieve faster, collaborative and continuous software delivery. However, the DevOps methodology fails if it does not address the issue of DevOps burnout. In this post, we’ll uncover strategies that DevOps teams can use to better … Continued

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July 22, 2021 | by Ritika Bramhe
Monitoring best practices

Monitoring and Alerting 101: Monitoring Best Practices

An effective monitoring system is paramount to smooth business operations. As the need for a fast, responsive software experience gains momentum, monitoring becomes an indispensable driving force. Monitoring systems enable IT teams to proactively observe the health and responsiveness of critical environments and applications. Without monitoring, organizations must depend on customers or internal departments to … Continued

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May 14, 2021 | by Ritika Bramhe
noc alerts

Enhance NOC Alerts With Incident Management and Alert Automation

In a network operations center (NOC), alerts originating from hundreds of servers, application monitoring systems, emails and ticketing services compete to catch a NOC analyst’s attention.   NOCs face many challenges in parsing through alerts to identify actionable notifications and mobilize the right response team into action.  In this post, we’ll explore how to empower NOCs … Continued

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