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Automatic Alert Export to Third-Party Systems

In the SIGNL4 web portal you can manually export historic alert reports as.csv files. In some cases it might be useful to export alert data programmatically. For example you can forward all alerts including specific parameters to InfluxDB and show the alert history in Grafana to recognize peaks, trends and abnormalities over time. You can even use AIOps to recognize certain trends automatically. By using the SIGNL4 REST API it is possible to export alert data automatically.

CheckMK and Enterprise Alert - a scripted heartbeat check

A few days ago I received an inquiry about a scripting problem from one of our longtime partners, to be exact our DCP Marc Handel from IT unlimited AG. In the exchange with Marc I realized that his idea to use the Enterprise Alert Scripting Host, the Windows Task Scheduler and CheckMK to realize a roundtrip monitoring could be interesting for the whole community. Especially for all our CheckMK customers.

Introducing our open source SLO Tracker - A simple tool to track SLOs and Error Budget

One of the tools we use internally at Squadcast for SLO and Error Budget tracking is now open-source. In keeping up with the SRE ideology of automating as many ops tasks as possible, we built this SLO Tracker. We made this open-source so that the SRE community can also use it too. Looking forward to get your feedback, suggestions and patches :)

Essential Tools for Site Reliability Engineers

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are involved in scaling systems and making them reliable and efficient for organizations. But SREs often fail to build system resiliency when they do not have the right tools at their disposal. In this post, we’ll uncover five leading tools that SREs can use to drive the reliability and stability of computing systems. It also examines how SREs can use the tools to improve operations tasks and infrastructure processes.

3 Ways xMatters Can Ease Healthcare Incidents

Many organizations use xMatters to keep their services running and reliable. From technology businesses to complex enterprises, one particular industry that has overwhelmingly benefited from the use of xMatters is healthcare. In healthcare, speed and effectiveness are vital. Incidents are critical, and quality patient care is the highest priority.