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In review: Gartner Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability

You know it’s going to be a great day when you find yourself mentioned as a sample vendor on the well-read Gartner’s Hype Cycle report. The OnPage team is thrilled to share with its community that we have been mentioned as a sample vendor by Gartner on their latest Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability. Continuing its impressive streak of mentions this year, OnPage is featured as a sample vendor, specifically within the Automated Incident Response category.

Datadog and BigPanda: Observability and AIOps made better together

Datadog’s modern observability empowers development engineers with full-stack visibility, comprehensive instrumentation generation, and proactive alerts to accelerate software development releases and address potential incidents. While Datadog gives teams end-to-end visibility, it works even better together with AIOps from BigPanda – development teams gain insights into outside application dependencies and reliance on other systems.

How summertime turns up the heat on cyber readiness (and what to do about it)

“Malicious cyber actors aren’t making the same holiday plans as you.” (CISA & FBI) Summertime is prime time for cyberattacks. According to one survey, 58% of security professionals believe that there is seasonality in the attacks that their company experiences every year, with the majority citing summer as high season for breaches.

Optimizing Resource Scheduling and Planning in Healthcare

The pandemic has exacerbated the staff shortage in healthcare, placing a disproportionate burden on the industry, and underscoring the significance of effective resource scheduling. While resource scheduling encompasses the allocation of healthcare staff and physical resources and assets, in this blog, our primary focus will be on healthcare staff. Resource scheduling plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of healthcare facilities.

July 2023 Update - New user management, Duty stand-ins, incident response in voice-calls and simplified SSO

User July update includes a new and optimized user management in the web portal and a new feature in the duty scheduler, which allows to easily create stand-ins for scheduled duty personnel. Furthermore, it is now possible to acknowledge or close Signls directly during the call. As always, all details can be found in this blog article.

Critical Incident Management - Roles and Responsibilities

Critical Incident Management is designed to handle disruptive and unexpected events that threaten to harm an organization or its stakeholders. These incidents range from cyber attacks and system failures to natural disasters and global pandemics. The importance of critical incident management cannot be overstated, as it is a pivotal process that maintains business continuity and ensures smooth operations despite adversities.

How Incident Tracking Can Benefit Your IT Organization

In the dynamic world of Information Technology (IT), incident tracking is a critical process within the realm of incident management that can significantly influence an organization’s operational efficiency and service quality. Incident management refers to the identification, recording, and management of incidents—unplanned events or disruptions—that can impact IT services.

Powering ConnectWise PSA With a New Alerting Workflow

In our previous blog from the ConnectWise series titled “OnPage-ConnectWise Incident Alert Management Workflows,” we discussed how customers are optimizing their investments in ConnectWise PSA. Now, we’re excited to present a new and powerful workflow specifically designed for after-hours that addresses the evolving needs of IT and Managed IT clients.

SIGNL4 Onboarding: Alert Notifications & Handling

The SIGNL4 Onboarding series walks users through the process's of SIGNL4 from Signup to Alerts to Settings. Today's video focuses on receiving alerts and all of the options available inside of your SIGNL4 alerts. This video is packed with helpful tips to help you get the most out of your account.

How we improved Grafana's alert state history to provide better insights into your alerting data

The Prometheus alerting model is a flexible tool in every observability toolkit. When enhanced with Grafana data sources, you can easily alert on any data, anywhere it might live, using the battle-tested label semantics and alerting state machine that Prometheus defines. Often, engineers want to see patterns in their alerts over time, in order to observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often.