In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the healthcare industry since before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for IT Ops and […]
The State of IT Ops
In our most recent article, we highlighted some of the results of our recent IT Ops survey. We noted, for example, that 80 percent of IT teams are alerted to critical events via email and 41 percent of teams are experiencing excessive alerts. These stats go a long way to explaining why IT Ops is […]
DataDog Announces APM. Why You Should Care
In case you missed it, DataDog announced it has added application performance monitoring to infrastructure and business goal monitoring. Part of my background includes a variety of clustered systems. First VMware, then OpenStack, Hadoop and its derivatives for a while, and these days the Mesos family. One of the many things I have learned along […]
DevOps Without Scale, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I covered why it’s important to be aware of your product’s health and how you can do so. I covered the user experience and technical types of metrics and how to get started with collecting them. In this part of the series I will walk you through how to […]