How Alert & Event correlation is helping IT organizations improve productivity

With about 40% of organizations being inundated by over a million event alerts a day, and 11% receiving over 10 million alerts a day; the only way forward is a massive change in infrastructure.

IT concepts or protocols have usually been built with the notion of grouping or hierarchy, instead of dealing with a flat list of entities. The continued innovation of IT-powered service allows different departments to work in concert delivering overall optimized performance. Events-related functionality: alert and event correlation need to be streamlined to improve productivity.

How is this accomplished?

Grouping generic alerts

Establishing a generic alert for all your production routers makes it possible for any router whose connection is interrupted immediately to generate an alert.

Grouping alerts for a single incident

Aggregating multiple alerts for a single related event into a bucket known as ‘incidents’. This allows grouping multiple alerts as one actionable incident and logging all alerts for that particular incident to be filed under that. This allows the focus to be on managing the incident and getting the system up and running rather than being inundated by the alerts.