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A better way: 3 incident response areas prime for automation

By automating some rote parts of incident response, you reduce decision fatigue and help responders get to solving the problem faster with less stress. In this post, we talk about three areas of the incident response process that are prime for automation.

Identify and resolve incidents faster with InsightFinder's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

InsightFinder is a SaaS platform that uses AI-backed predictive analytics to predict and prevent production incidents. Using InsightFinder with Datadog, you can quickly identify hidden correlations in your application metrics, logs, and events and address application issues before they devolve into production outages and create customer impact.

How Microsoft Dynamics helped us fix a leaky CRM bucket

Customer relationship management (CRM) is sometimes like a bucket. New customers represent water going into the bucket, and departing customers reflect water flowing out. The water level—or the number of customers—rises and falls depending on the amount of water flowing into the bucket and the number and size of the holes. At ServiceNow, we recognized we had a leaky CRM bucket, thanks to rapid customer growth.

How Cloud Asset Management Provides Fuller Inventory Visibility

Cloud adoption has grown in recent years. From organizations developing a cloud-native strategy to those focused on cloud migration, there are many different ways to consume the cloud. No matter the reason for choosing the cloud or how organizations get there, many overlook one critical piece of the puzzle: cloud asset management. Have you been frustrated by figuring out what you have deployed in what cloud? If so, you're not alone. Let's examine why this is so important.

Gartner IOCS Blog - Lucid Motors Case Study

Assaf Resnick, CEO and co-founder of BigPanda, sat down with Sanjay Chandra, vice president of information technology at luxury electric automaker Lucid Motors, at Gartner IT IOCS 2022. They discussed Lucid’s unique ITOps journey and how BigPanda helps minimize downtime of critical applications and services. Sanjay is a visionary ITOps leader, responsible for IT, enterprise systems, global infrastructure, operations and security at Lucid Motors.

How communication can make or break your incidents

In this episode, Pete and Lisa discuss why great communication (both internally and externally) is essential to the success of any incident management process. From keeping your wider team in the loop to minimise disruption, to using customer communication to strengthen your brand when things go wrong, the team share their experiences and top tips for having a transparent incident communication culture.

Kubernetes Monitoring: 4 Data Types to Increase Insights

Having a deep understanding of a Kubernetes cluster is important: the right insights allow you to monitor the performance and health of the cluster, which is necessary for ensuring that applications are running smoothly and that any potential issues can be identified and addressed quickly. As your Kubernetes cluster develops, so does the need for monitoring and troubleshooting.

DevOps Security: Challenges and Best Practices

With the shift from traditional monolithic applications to the distributed microservices of DevOps, there is a need for a similar change in operational security policies. For example, how do you secure a disparate number of micro-systems operating with multiple access credentials across a multi-level organization? DevSecOps (Devops security) answers this question by integrating security at every level of your development process.

Unreadable Metrics: Why You Can't Find Anything in Your Monitoring Dashboards

Dashboards are powerful tools for monitoring and troubleshooting your system. Too often, however, we run into an incident, jump to the dashboard, just to find ourselves drowning in endless data and unable to find what we need. This could be caused not just by the data overload, but also due to seeing too many or too few colors, inconsistent conventions or the lack of visual cues.