Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

December 2020

In the aftermath of the SolarWinds hack, IT Ops leaders should reconsider on-premises tooling investments

Solarwinds is a 21-year old publicly traded monitoring and network management vendor with 300,000+ customers across the world. It’s familiar to IT operations and monitoring teams across enterprises big and small. And this week, it found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Integrations diagnostics and an enhanced ServiceNow integration: we're doubling down on rapid time to value

In 2020, enterprises have meaningfully accelerated their digital transformation. The global financial advisory firm KPMG, notes that “For a majority of U.S. CEOs, the pandemic has meant an acceleration in digital transformation by months or even years. The move to digitization has accelerated, and the benefits will be permanent. There is no going back.” Software vendors are seeing this very clearly too.

Hybrid cloud: easing the migration pain

Most enterprises today are in the stages of a hybrid cloud migration, and no matter how they view this migration or implement it, the challenges they face are fairly common across the board. Does that mean there are common best practices for a hybrid cloud migration, and if so – what are they? Join us in a CTO Perspective discussion with Scott Stradley, Field CTO at BigPanda. Lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript.

Welcome to BigPanda University and the new Getting Started with BigPanda video series

Ease of use and outstanding user experience have always been a top priority for us, and we consider them to be a key factor in our success. Recent years have seen enterprise customers also looking for a self-service, low-friction user experience – and part of that includes access to extensive educational content, for all the stages of the product onboarding process and all levels of usage.

Getting Started with BigPanda - Overview

Welcome to the first installment of the Getting Started with BigPanda video series. BigPanda’s "No Experts Required" setup can be broken down into six steps: Out of the box integrations (outbound and inbound), normalization and enrichment, correlation, environments, collaboration & sharing and user management. In this video we will provide an overview of each, and subsequent videos will provide more in-depth information into each area.

Getting Started with Normalization and Enrichment

In BigPanda, normalization is the translation of payloads from different systems into a consistent taxonomy. Enrichment is the process of adding context to the alerts by associating them with relevant information such as topology maps, runbook links, metadata and more. In this video we are going to walk you through a powerful technique for normalizing & enriching alerts called Custom Tags.

Getting Started with Correlation

Correlation is a method of grouping related monitoring alerts into a single high-level incident. In this video, we'll explain how BigPanda utilizes pattern recognition to automatically detect which alerts are likely related; correlates them into high-level, actionable incidents; and allows you to see, edit and test the correlation patterns before going into production.