On July 22, 2019, Slack was in the middle of deploying an update to their desktop app. The update was supposed to decrease memory consumption and increase load time, but instead the company suffered a significant, widespread outage on a global scale. After approximately 40 minutes of downtime, the service was back up. But in the meantime, the company whose motto is ‘where work happens’ essentially stopped working.

When you first set up your Anodot account, you create alerts on the KPIs that matter most to you. Advanced alert configurations enable you to define various parameters so that you only get alerts that are important to you: selecting the metric, building a query, grouping the data by dimensions, selecting triggers and conditions, choosing who and where it should be sent to, and so on.

With AI analytics slated as the biggest disruptor to big data and analytics, data leaders are quickly integrating this capability into their data strategy. Itzik Feldman, data engineering manager at Atlassian, the enterprise software company responsible for Jira and Trello, recently credited Anodot with helping keep the company’s 3,000 employees in touch with product performance and customer experience.

August 2019 was a bad month when it came to financial services outages, with both consumers and investors faced with banking glitches that made them unable to access their accounts. Let’s take a look at the anomalies that made headlines over the last 30 days.