Chaos engineering (CE) is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. This approach is becoming commonplace in software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But how would its application extend to ITOps? CE for ITOps offers a similar framework for stress-testing a technology platform to understand its weak points and performance pitfalls under heavy pressure.

Webhooks allow third-party services to send updates through events and deliver real-time information to OpsRamp via HTTP requests. When an event gets triggered, an HTTP POST payload is sent to the configured webhook URL and custom logic associated with the webhook gets executed.

The OpsRamp Fall 2019 Release delivers comprehensive features for hybrid infrastructure management with machine learning-powered intelligent correlation and multi-cloud monitoring support. The new release also offers enhanced synthetic monitoring capabilities and a new custom integration framework for sharing data with third-party IT management tools.

Digital Enterprise Journal’s (DEJ) research shows that organizations view cloud strategies as key areas for using technology to create business value. Organizations are seeing the importance of cloud deployments in each of the following areas of digital transformation - agility (71%), innovation (65%) and cost optimization (61%). The majority of cloud deployments are being conducted in a hybrid model where parts of IT services are being managed on-premises and in private and public cloud(s).

Last month, the Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) recognized OpsRamp as a Top 20 Vendor for enabling best- performing organizations in managing IT operations. DEJ's recent report features OpsRamp in the Top 20 Vendors for Enabling Best Performing Organizations. Meanwhile, the field marketing team controlled the chaos at several industry events like IDG Chicago, ConnecTech Houston and CIO Summit by Sapphire Ventures.

OpsRamp offers different options to manage user identity, including built-in user management, SAML, and OAuth2 based authentication, and third-party authentication services. The OpsRamp Okta integration enables secure user authentication and seamless access without having to remember multiple passwords or re-enter login details.

The third quarter of 2019 has seen OpsRamp receive market recognition from three independent analyst firms, Digital Enterprise Journal, 451 Research, and Gartner. Leading media publications, DevOps Online News and ITOps Times, have also highlighted OpsRamp’s capabilities for DevOps and IT Operations Analytics.

The following first appeared in Cloud Tech News. In early June 2019, Google Cloud suffered a cascading set of faults that rendered multiple service regions unavailable for a number of hours. This by itself isn’t totally unprecedented; what made it significant was the way it propagated through the very software that was designed to contain it. Moreover, engineers’ initial attempts to correct the issue were thwarted by the failure of that same software architecture.

Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ) just released their latest market study, The Roadmap to Becoming a Top Performing Organization in Managing IT Operations. DEJ surveyed 900+ organizations to uncover the best practices and capabilities of the top 20% of IT operations teams. The thirty-three-page report uncovers how top performing IT organizations (TPOs) are reaping operational and business benefits in the form of...