Eleven Practical Ways for DevOps Engineers to Better Manage Their Work Environment At OnPage, we know the importance of DevOps burnout and have explored the topic in different formats such as our eBook and video. The importance of the issue is highlighted by the following components: Decreased employee happiness: Employees become less satisfied and … Continued
As software development teams struggle with spotty, siloed software delivery cycles, the DevOps approach provides relief by unifying stakeholders to achieve faster, collaborative and continuous software delivery. However, the DevOps methodology fails if it does not address the issue of DevOps burnout. In this post, we’ll uncover strategies that DevOps teams can use to better … Continued
In a network operations center (NOC), alerts originating from hundreds of servers, application monitoring systems, emails and ticketing services compete to catch a NOC analyst’s attention. NOCs face many challenges in parsing through alerts to identify actionable notifications and mobilize the right response team into action. In this post, we’ll explore how to empower NOCs … Continued
In a SOC (security operations center), alerts originating from hundreds of systems compete to get attention. What ensues is a security analyst’s battle to beat alert fatigue while effectively defending their organization from cybersecurity threats. Alert fatigue is a major challenge faced by security operations center (SOC) teams. The stakes are even higher since they … Continued
IT incident responders have been inundated with alerts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These engineers must dig through their messages to collect and respond to real alerts for real critical events. This process wastes time and prolongs incident response. The objective is to focus on IT event noise reduction to recognize and resolve … Continued
Email alerting is an inefficient way to receive and address critical alerts. Email inboxes tend to get flooded with “clutter,” as irrelevant messages bury urgent incident notifications. Incident management procedures require incident management systems, ensuring that urgent issues are immediately addressed. Yet, some services are reluctant to say goodbye to email alerting and its inefficiencies. … Continued
If you’ve been following the U.K. healthcare landscape, you would know that the country has been considering replacing pagers for the longest time. This may soon materialize, partly accelerated by the challenges that doctors are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pager replacement initiative not only signifies a pivotal shift from the aging infrastructure, but it … Continued
In today’s chaotic digital sphere, networks are distributed across an increasingly wide range of hackable endpoints. From smartphones and tablets to Internet of Things (IoT) devices—everything gets connected to the network. EDR technologies and practices were created for the purpose of providing active endpoint protection and defense. However, if your systems and admins are overloaded … Continued
Exceptional customer service is key in the world of IT, where something could go wrong at any given moment. This level of support equates to business retention, client satisfaction and high success rates and profits. In this post, I’ll introduce a hypothetical scenario, where “MSP Team A” provides 24×7 after-hours support to a valuable client. Scenario: … Continued
IT alerting and IT monitoring are not what they used to be. In years past, software releases were scheduled a few times per year. Often, one monitoring tool would review the infrastructure and would catch and spit out alerts. Sorry, but those days are gone. Nowadays, start-ups use containers and microservices, continuous integration and delivery. … Continued