SolarWinds recently conducted a survey on IT Alert Management with participation from over 150 IT professionals. We learned about the challenges faced in managing alerts. Here are the findings…
2. Introduction
SolarWinds recently The Agenda
conducted a survey on IT
» The Survey – What did the IT
Alert Management with guys say?
participation from over 150 » Outcome – What are the
IT professionals. challenges?
» Key Takeaway – What does the
We learned about the survey mean to you?
challenges faced in » Recommendation – Remove
managing alerts. the complexity in alert
management.
Here are the findings…
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3. Complexity in managing IT alerts
Out of 150+ respondents, over 73% of
survey respondents said alert management
was a real pain in their organization.
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4. How is on-call scheduling handled?
More than 40% rely on a physical device
for on-call scheduling
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5. What is the effectiveness?
65% said the methods they are currently
using to manage on-call scheduling were
“somewhat” or “not at all” effective.
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6. What are the missing features?
More than 60% of the respondents feel acknowledging an alert from their phone, without
requiring VPN login is a feature majorly missed from their alert management program
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7. Are these alerts meant for you?
75% of respondents said they get alerts that
are not their problem to deal with at least
once a month while 50% of respondents
said this happens at least once a week.
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8. Number of vendors
Close to 50% use more than 3-5 vendors to
manage their IT infrastructure
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9. What has come out of the survey?
» Biggest challenges faced with alert management
1. Tracking alerts
2. Getting the alerts to the right person/team
3. Getting/responding to requests
4. Determining if alerts are mission critical
5. Sending valid/actionable alerts. Built-in alert escalation
» Frequent consequences of missing an alert
1. Not knowing there is a problem before the end-users know it
2. Faulty alerts due to clumsy software design
3. Late response to outage
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10. What does the survey mean to you?
» It’s time that you remove the complexity out of IT alert
management and treat all alerts from a single console
» You need to be able to
Simplify alert management
Know the problem before the end-users know it
Manage all of your IT alerts from a single environment
Deal with alerts only meant for you
Effectively handle on-call scheduling
Send alerts to the right person on the right team at the right time
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11. IT alert management can be a real pain – fix it
free with SolarWinds Alert Central
Managing IT alerts has
never been this easy!
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» Consolidate alerts from a galaxy of IT systems into a single environment where you
can easily manage alerts, on-call scheduling and escalations
» Some cool features
Filter alerts to see what matters to you
See alert status at a glance
Send alerts to the right groups
Acknowledge, escalate or reopen from the product UI or the alert
Reply to alert emails, no VPN access required
Automatically route alerts to the appropriate group(s)
Test routing rules before you put them into practice
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12. How Does SolarWinds Alert Central work?
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13. Helpful resources
We invite you to learn more about SolarWinds Alert Central
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