Category: IT Alerting

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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April 6, 2021 | by OnPage Corporation
shift left security

Shifting Security Left: Tools and Best Practices

What Is Shift Left Security? Software development pipelines typically cycle through key four processes—design, development, testing and software or update releases. Traditional pipelines perform quality and security tests only after completing the development phase.  Since there is no such thing as a perfect code, there are always issues to fix. However, if significant architectural changes … Continued

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April 2, 2021 | by Ritika Bramhe
SOC

Strategies to Reduce Alert Fatigue in Your SOC Team

In a SOC (security operations center), alerts originating from hundreds of systems compete to get attention. What ensues is a security analyst’s battle to beat alert fatigue while effectively defending their organization from cybersecurity threats.  Alert fatigue is a major challenge faced by security operations center (SOC) teams. The stakes are even higher since they … Continued

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November 6, 2020 | by Ritika Bramhe
event noise reduction

Zen Your Life With IT Event Noise Reduction

IT incident responders have been inundated with alerts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These engineers must dig through their messages to collect and respond to real alerts for real critical events. This process wastes time and prolongs incident response. The objective is to focus on IT event noise reduction to recognize and resolve … Continued

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July 14, 2020 | by Christopher Gonzalez
Email alerting

FYI: Email Alerting Isn’t Enough

Email alerting is an inefficient way to receive and address critical alerts. Email inboxes tend to get flooded with “clutter,” as irrelevant messages bury urgent incident notifications. Incident management procedures require incident management systems, ensuring that urgent issues are immediately addressed.  Yet, some services are reluctant to say goodbye to email alerting and its inefficiencies. … Continued

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June 15, 2020 | by Christopher Gonzalez
IT alerting systemsd

What Is an IT Alerting System? Features, Principles and Best Practices

When mission-critical systems go down, every second matters. As businesses embrace digital transformation, they become heavily reliant on technology to conduct their operations, and a downed tech service can translate into millions of lost revenues. Customers are accustomed to seamless experiences, and even the slightest inconvenience can drive them away, costing both revenue and reputational … Continued

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May 27, 2020 | by Ritika Bramhe
DevOps pipeline

How to Add Incident Alert Management to Your DevOps Pipeline

DevOps pipelines enable teams to implement continuous software development processes, often by using automation and collaboration tooling. The overall goal is to quickly release software products, updates, and fixes.  To ensure a DevOps pipeline works well, teams add management and monitoring tooling to the pipeline. This includes incident alert management, which supports the team’s efforts … Continued

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March 9, 2020 | by Gilad Maayan
DevOps

How to Create DevOps Pipelines That Work

DevOps is a software development practice that combines development and operations teams. When organizations use DevOps, they typically also use agile methodologies for managing and completing projects. The combination of DevOps and agile practices enables teams to build software faster and more efficiently.  One of the primary tools of DevOps is the continuous integration/continuous delivery … Continued

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