Hello and welcome to the fourth post in our EI Architecture series focusing on Intelligent Alert Grouping. Previously we have talked about how to train Intelligent Alert Grouping using incident merges (here) and how to configure your alert titles to improve default matching. In this post, we’re going to cover how service design can also impact your experience with Intelligent Alert Grouping as well as the PagerDuty app in general.
We’re continuing on with our third piece about how to utilize and improve your Intelligent Alert Grouping (IAG)! In case you missed it, the first two blog posts describe the feature (here) and explain how it uses merging to group alerts (here). We alluded to today’s post at the end of last: today we’ll be discussing how to use alert titles to improve IAG matches.
We often hear from customers that they’re dealing with unmanageable levels of noise and complexity, which makes it harder to pinpoint root cause and get to resolution quickly. All this effort spent on sifting through noise, processing events, and gathering context results in a lot of wasted time. That’s why we’ve launched Event Orchestration, which became generally available to our Event Intelligence and Digital Operations customers on Monday.
Incidents happen. Things go wrong. Systems fail. Sometimes they fail in unexpected and dramatic ways that create Major Incidents. PagerDuty makes a very specific distinction between an incident and an Incident. Your organization may also make such a distinction. Determining if an incident is major or not can come down to a number of factors, or a specific combination of factors, like the number of services affected, the customer impact, and the duration of the incident.
After two years of sky-high spending on cloud and related technologies, 2022 is the crunch point for corporate IT and digital leaders. Investments in technology helped facilitate the rapid shift to mass hybrid working and supported businesses to embrace the digital-first models of the new normal. But beyond merely investments to support new working styles, leaders also must ensure their organization continues to innovate.
