IT Operations Health — Visualized
Blog post from PagerDuty
PagerDuty's Infrastructure Health Application, part of the Operations Command Console, addresses the challenges faced by IT operations professionals in managing incidents within complex microservice architectures. By providing a real-time visual overview of alert clusters across services and hosts, the application enhances incident response by allowing responders to quickly assess the scale of issues and determine necessary resources. This tool aids in both the immediate firefight and postmortem analysis, offering insights into the root causes of incidents and improving alert configurations. Additionally, it enables proactive deduction by identifying patterns and leading-edge indicators in infrastructure data, thereby enhancing overall infrastructure health. The application integrates with other PagerDuty features, such as Services Group and Custom Event Transformer, to provide a comprehensive perspective on incidents and their impact, encouraging users to leverage these visualizations for improved incident management and business service modeling.