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On-call On-boarding Checklist

And it starts with the company culture. Irrespective of how small or large your team is, it’s wise to invest some time in creating a good on-call onboarding plan. A humane on-call is the mark of a good engineering culture. Being on-call means that you’re expected to be reachable for any issues that may occur during your shift. It’s easy to lose any and all motivation by just anxiously anticipating that mid-dinner ping.

Building an Effective Alert Strategy

Alerts are an essential part of performance monitoring. Alerts and notifications need to be sent out as soon as an issue is identified, allowing you to know about any problems before your customers do. In this week’s Tip Tuesday, we look at building an effective alert strategy and how to utilize Catchpoint Alerts so that you can quickly and effectively leverage the information provided to take carefully targeted action and improve your MTTR. Building an effective alert strategy is important.

Driving Real-Time ChatOps With PagerDuty and Microsoft Teams

With over 75 million daily active users, it’s safe to say Microsoft Teams is essential to many global businesses. On top of that, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently shared that Microsoft saw 200 million meeting participants in a single day this month. While Microsoft Teams’ explosive growth can be tied to recent spikes in remote work, many enterprises have relied on Teams to connect people across the globe for quite some time.

The MSP's competitive edge: a new standard of incident response

In the effort to streamline operations and enhance cost efficiencies, organizations large and small are turning to managed services providers (MSPs) to outsource key IT activities. In fact, this shift is so broad reaching that the global MSP market is expected to exceed $375 billion by 2025! Indeed, outsourcing to MSPs brings many advantages.

Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0: The Virtual NOC Is Here!

Remote collaboration. Workflow automation. Streamlined remediation. AI-fueled data analysis. These are all key trends in IT operations management that the current crisis has accelerated, turning them into requirements for continuous service assurance in modern IT environments. Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0, available now, delivers all these advanced capabilities and more.

How to Trigger Alerts From Application Events

EventSources, the sister LogicModule to DataSources, are a useful framework for triggering event-based, contextual alerts from your applications and infrastructure. While DataSources poll your applications and infrastructure for time-series datapoints, EventSources poll (or listen) for interesting events from your log files, SNMP traps, syslogs, Windows Event Logs, and much more.

How OpsRamp's intelligent Escalations Enables Remote Workers

OpsRamp alert escalation policies allow an administrator to configure escalation rules that determine which alerts that need attention, which users are required to take action, and what actions should be taken. In this interactive session we'll dive into why this is more important than ever as organizations adopt remote work strategies and need to be able to not only understand the signal from the noise, but also get to the root cause faster and ensure information is getting to the right people at the right time to reduce meantime to resolution.

OpsRamp: Simplify and Transform IT Operations

Modern IT operations management is the horsepower that turns IT into the business-building, revenue-generating hero to millions that should it be. IT has the power to modernize and transform the business. And ops has the power to transform IT. This is OpsRamp. This is the future of digital Ops. OpsRamp makes it easy to control the chaos of modern digital infrastructure. The OpsRamp service-centric AIOps platform discovers, monitors, manages, and automates hybrid environments to simplify and transform IT operations management.