We recently discussed the keys to a connected ITOps monitoring experience. This is a short list to recap how you can design the type of ITOps monitoring experience that will sustain effective collaboration, shorten incident resolution times, constantly improve IT service and organizational performance.
1. Build with integration in mind. Integration and interoperability should be the guiding principles as you design your ideal ITOPs monitoring platform. You may want to start with an assessment of your current capabilities.
2. Integrate requirements from other IT teams. Knowing what your colleagues in the IT department—and even in LOBs look for in terms of metrics and KPIs is the key to build a centralized, collaborative IT monitoring platform that will provide real value—from reducing time to repair, optimizing performance and operations, to facilitating innovation blitzes and automation.
3. Say no to silos. It may be tempting to allow for some teams to keep legacy or niche tools, even if that habit results in data silos and blind spots. But if a tool cannot be cost-efficiently integrated into a shared, common platform, then it does not contribute to the seamless observability platform you are trying to build. Your best shot at promoting cross-functional collaboration while allowing for flexibility is to select an open source-based platform that’s API and connector-driven to easily interlock with a range of current and future specialized tools.
4. Automate monitoring and support other automation initiatives. Limit time spent on manual configurations in an ever-changing IT environment—it’s one thing to monitor everything but quite another to manually manage an extensive monitoring scope. Auto-discovering changes and applying ready to use templates enable automation at the ITOps monitoring level. You can also support automation initiatives by feeding relevant telemetry data into automation tools using a set of APIs.
5. Connect IT with business. Connect infrastructure and business views—It’s the second level of integration found in connected ITOps monitoring platforms. Map the infrastructure and equipment supporting essential business services and correlate IT-centric data to higher level, user-focused KPIs, which have been defined with key stakeholders and application developers.
6. Connect with LOB colleagues and customers. Interconnect your monitoring platform with other domains, such as CX and other advanced performance analytics to provide the insights that will make the business thrive, effectively bridging the gap between IT and business.
7. Connect with business performance analytics. Feed qualified, business-relevant events and metrics from the ITOps monitoring platform into your corporate business analytics solution, for constant, real-time organizational performance optimization. As your organization adopts AIOps and ML capabilities, the insights will contribute to self-optimizing organizational processes and performance.
Read the other blog posts in the ITOps connected monitoring series
- Connected IT Monitoring is Key to Next Generation of ITOps Monitoring
- 4 Levels of Integration for Next Gen, connected IT Ops monitoring
- Why blockchain technology calls for connected monitoring
- Connected Monitoring: Monitor your Blockchain with Centreon
- Interfacing Centreon with Prometheus: How to get the most out of connected monitoring
- Everything you’ve always wanted to know about Centreon and Opsgenie but were afraid to ask
- Seamless collaboration: Send Centreon notifications in Microsoft Teams rooms
TAKEAWAY
The pillars of a connected ITOps monitoring experience:
- CENTRALIZED PLATFORM. Monitors the full environment with one solution—from multicloud environments to on premise, the edge and IoT.
- OPEN SOURCE. Adopt an open source framework for easily configuring and scaling ITOps monitoring to your current and future IT environment, while allowing the interoperability with some of your favorite tools.
- INTEROPERABLE. Integrate your monitoring solution with your ITSM, automation and AIOps solution.
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