Are you a DevOps engineer vexed by a deluge of system generated alert mails? Ah! Alert fatigue it is.
In the age of Continuous Delivery and DevOps automation, managing huge volumes of IT alert noise is a big headache. What’s even more challenging is to segregate these system generated alert mails for simplified remediation and make room for more time-to-market.
To ease the challenge and make a DevOps engineer’s life easy, Botmetric has power packed its Ops & Automation with the release of Alert Analytics. The new feature provides you a bird’s eye view of all the alerts from multiple monitoring systems like DataDog, NewRelic, etc. It also detects anomalies across your cloud infrastructure proactively and helps you with efficient alerts management by reducing the noise.
The backdrop: What drove Botmetric to build Alert Analytics
Since the last decade, IT operations have been seeing a lot of adaptations — from physical servers to cloud to containers, from admins to IT Ops, and from IT Ops to DevOps. Across all these adaptations, one unavoidable yet irksome activity remains with the Ops team throughout. That is handling a deluge of system generated alerts.
On an average, an Ops engineer spends 1–2 minutes to identify the alerts. And then 2 to 7 minutes to analyze the issue and look for a quick-fix solution. This constant need for being vigilant and cognitive is quite stressful and eats up lot of time and effort. In many cases, alerts tend to re-occur and might get devoid of the engineer’s attention. Even with the help of monitoring tools, alerts management is a huge challenge as distributed cloud architectures and containers add to the complexity.
In one of the previous Botmetric blogs, we had listed few interesting facts what DevOps teams need in exchange of these alert emails. Some of these are: the ability to understand signal over noise, need for scope aware alerting, etc.
Catering to this need, Alert Analytics will help DevOps engineers and architects to have a quick look at the alerts(either by host or by metric) over a period of time to understand the patterns. This capability enable them to make informed decisions and reduce the fatigue.
Read in our blog about the features that the new Alert Analytics offers: https://www.botmetric.com/blog/introducing-alert-analytics-botmetric-smartest-way-devops-alerts-management/
You can access this feature in Botmetric Cloud Management Platform under Ops & Automation. Give it a 14-days try, experience what NoOps is, and write to us with your feedback on how we can improve it further.
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