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More Chatbots - Slack, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree has added 3 new chatbot services including Mattermost, Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts Chat (this is in addition to our core Slack notification channel). Chatbots are available on all pricing tiers free of charge! :) If you don’t already have an account, sign up for a free-trial now. Our chatbots are will post alert details to a “channel” of your choice.

How to maximize the value of SCOM - Monitoring, Alerts, Incidents & Visualization

In SCOM you can see the monitoring that generates your alerts (the contents of Health Explorer). While SCOM doesn’t always make it easy to get at the valuable context that this monitoring data provides, it is there and can help answer the "why" questions that often come up when looking at an alert in isolation.

Let's Talk AIOps: Part 1: What IS AIOps, Exactly?

This is the first in a two-part blog series deconstructing AIOps for ITOps leaders. If you gave me a dollar for every company that claims that they use “A.I.,” I’d be doing pretty well. But as a marketer, I can’t help but be a little skeptical about those claims. Let me explain.

Working with multiple on-call teams using Zabbix and iLert

This post outlines how to use Zabbix and iLert with multiple on-call teams, where each team is responsible for a set of host groups in Zabbix, and therefore, will only receive alerts for the services it is responsible for. But first, let’s start with the basic needs when being on-call.

Alerts vs Incidents vs ITSM

In order to effectively address production issues in your application, you need to have a strong incident response strategy. Incident response starts with an alert which leads to mobilization and response, and finally results in a record of all that happened and was learned from addressing issues. In this session of Dissecting DevOps, learn about the lifecycle of incidents from alert to post mortem and why incident response is as much a strategy as a process.

Retail Industry Trends 2020: All-In on Digital Since COVID-19

This is the first in a series of posts we’ll be publishing on trends we’re seeing in the retail industry and how IT organizations tasked with deploying and maintaining flawless digital customer experiences can take advantage of PagerDuty to ensure always-on reliability. It’s been a tough year for retail.

Fiserv Eliminates Ticket Overload with AIOps

Fiserv, the Fortune 500 payments and financial technology provider, needed to streamline and automate its IT incident management process to detect and fix issues earlier and more quickly. The incident management workflow was complex, primarily because mergers and acquisitions over the years had made Fiserv’s IT environment very heterogeneous. “The challenges we were facing were enormous,” IT Director Chris Kreps says.

Monitoring IoT devices using heartbeats and MQTT gateways

When working with IoT (internet of things) devices one of the key issues is to keep track of the health of all installations. Most of the time, especially with smaller devices, the applications (firmwares) are flashed for a single time during setup and stay untouched at their location of action for a long while.

AIOps - Done the Self-Service Way

Last week I went camping with some friends. One of them did the shopping for all of us, so I sent him my share using a payment app. It took me less than 2 minutes to complete the transaction. A few years ago, a similar transaction would have me going to the bank to complete the task, or at a minimum, calling a bank teller and having him do it. Try to imagine a bank asking its customers to do any of these things today. It would probably lose all its customers in no time.

How Enterprise Alert solves typical problems in network monitoring

A new article in the September issue of LANLine (“Automation creates productivity”) summarizes typical challenges and problems in network monitoring very well and is really worth reading. I would like to briefly discuss some of the issues raised and how our product Enterprise Alert® was developed to solve them. Of course, it is important that especially critical alarms are processed promptly. Even small problems can quickly lead to major failures.