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Learn what observability is and how it empowers IT teams to gain deep insights into system behavior and incident management.

BigPanda 25 brought together ITOps and ITSM leaders from across industries to to discuss how agentic AI is transforming ITOps and and incident management.

What is an AIOps platform? Discover how they leverage AI and automation for smarter IT operations. Uncover their benefits and use cases.

IT operations have reached a breaking point. Hybrid cloud and modern software architectures have led to unprecedented increases in the scale, complexity, and fragmentation of IT infrastructures. In their attempts to manage this complexity, enterprises invest billions into observability tools, IT Service Management (ITSM) platforms, and outsourced Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Despite these investments, enterprises […]

Learn about the three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—and how they work together to provide full visibility into your IT systems.

Maddie Serembus joined the BigPanda marketing team for a summer internship as she works toward her studies in marketing and sales at University of Delaware.

IT outages cost $14,056 per minute on average. What’s driving the increased costs? How can you use AIOps to reduce their frequency, duration, and impact?

BigPanda 24 brought together ITOps leaders from across industries to discuss the future of AIOps and IT operations. CEO Assaf Resnick shares his thoughts.

Discover how ServiceNow AIOps uses artificial intelligence and transforms incident management for smarter IT operations.

DevOps practices in software development have revolutionized the way updates are released. However, many companies entrenched in ITIL practices find it challenging to seamlessly integrate with the DevOps practice of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD). This is because ITIL focuses on stability, which suits older systems, while DevOps is ideal for modern setups with […]

IT leaders are thrilled about the potential of Generative AI for IT Operations. But they also want to know how it works, why it works, and what it will do for them before taking the leap and adopting this new technology. Allow me to share my perspective on the hype and the truth behind generative […]

Finding the root causes of IT anomalies can be challenging, but the rewards are worth it. By identifying the root cause or causes of an incident or critical failure, response teams can resolve incidents faster and determine the best steps to avoid having them recur. This can drive down both the frequency of service interruptions […]

Today, the majority of organizations operate under a hybrid cloud structure. Due to this, operations are consistently met with daily infrastructure and software changes and updates, which are also the primary cause of incidents and outages. Long gone are the days when a tech stack could be represented by a single dependency model. Microservices, CI/CD, […]

IT response teams find themselves battling against an overwhelming onslaught of incidents. Frustratingly long response times, challenges with prioritization, and the relentless pursuit of root cause are formidable adversaries that test even the most skilled teams. I remember customers’ electrifying anticipation with AI and automation a decade ago. They hoped AI could be used to […]

Beyond being the right thing to do, fostering inclusivity in the workplace empowers employees to show up fully as their authentic selves. “BigPanda is the first shop where I have openly identified as non-binary because I felt safe enough to,” said one employee. And considering how much of our life we spend working, BigPanda knows […]

What will 2023 look like for the industry? Our panel of industry experts share some insights to help you navigate the choppy waters.

Explore these use cases for AIOps to see how you can improve productivity, job satisfaction, and service quality from your ITOps teams.

The success of CI/CD depends on collaboration between IT Operations managers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders. Learn why CI/CD is important and why.

How much do you know about AIOps and event correlation? In this post we explore everything from its origins to current state-of-the-art techniques and how it fits into integrated service management.

Integrating all of your monitoring alert sources is quite a task. Large enterprises often struggle to aggregate millions of data records from dozens of monitoring, change, and topology tools in real-time. Filtering out the noise and prioritizing the most important alerts are crucial to a team’s success. BigPanda makes it simple to integrate with any […]

The amount of data volume and complexity within tech stacks is continuing to increase with no sign of slowing down. As a result, many organizations are facing significant challenges related to tool sprawl and the overwhelming amount of data that needs to be exchanged between all the different systems. The result is this new rapid […]

As an IT Ops exec, imagine your jubilation upon learning that after a year of hard work across your NOC, DevOps and SRE teams, you are able to automate incident response by 25%. You’re elated as you enter your CTO’s office to share this information, and their response is: “And your point is?”  If that […]

The effects of BigPanda’s most recent round of funding—amounting to $190 million—will be reverberating throughout the company for years to come. And it’s not just BigPanda employees who have experienced a surge of enthusiasm in the wake of our Unicorn status. Our customers are thrilled at the prospect of more innovation from our team and […]

I am excited to announce today that BigPanda has secured $190 million in financing at a $1.2 billion valuation. This financing was led by Advent International and Insight Partners, together with our other existing investors. BigPanda is now officially a unicorn, and the clear leader in the rapidly growing AIOps market! Keeping the digital economy […]

You’ve just recovered from a critical application outage and your team is being asked to report on root cause and recommended remediation steps later this afternoon. Can you quickly analyze all the data, identify all the leading events, and discern which one was responsible for the cascading failure? Later that week, you are back to […]

IT operations teams have some of the most stressful jobs in IT. Keeping data centers online, servers running, enterprise systems functioning, and applications performing — all while responding to incidents and requests is hard work. While there are monitoring systems in place to provide visibility and change management practices that give IT some control over the […]

This is the first in a series of blog posts on Open Box Machine Learning. If you’re part of a large enterprise, you’re probably in the throes of digital transformation. If you’re in IT, you’re supporting your business by rolling out new services and apps weekly (or even daily). Meanwhile, your users expect 24×7 availability […]

It was a big week for BigPanda at the Gartner IT Operations Strategies & Solutions (IOSS) Summit, which was held May 15-17th in Orlando, Fla. More than the Big News we announced and our CEO Assaf’s presentation, we enjoyed more than 700 high-quality interactions at Gartner IOSS Summit with senior enterprise IT leaders. Gartner’s theme this […]

Any organization can be defined by its operating principles. These are the fundamental norms, rules and values that represent what is desirable and positive for the group. Having well defined principles can help an organization operate as a “community” with a shared understanding of what is right and what is wrong. It’s key that these […]

BigPanda exhibited and moderated a customer success panel at Gartner’s big IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Data Center show in Las Vegas last month. The Gartner I&O Conference is action-packed, so it’s taken me awhile to digest all the great information and insights I gathered there. Gartner’s influence in the enterprise IT operations market is undisputed. […]

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Part 1 of this series defines algorithmic alert correlation and how it works. The term “algorithmic” describes how data science applies machine learning techniques to solve alert storms, aka alert floods. There are two flavors of machine learning currently being applied to this problem: one is “black box” and the other, “open box”. BigPanda applies open […]

The IT Operations tool stack is becoming exponentially more complex. This requires the utilization of a breadth of diverse monitoring tools in order to quickly detect and ultimately resolve critical issues before they can inflict real damage on the business. Most large enterprises already have a host of preferred monitoring tools installed and working. It […]

In his research note “Four Steps to Turbocharge Your Major Incident-Handling Capabilities”, Gartner analyst Kenneth Gonzalez makes a compelling argument for why enterprise IT service operations teams should upgrade their incident management workflow processes. Here’s BigPanda’s perspective on the topic. The Real Challenge: Most NOCs Aren’t Automated Most enterprises are undergoing some form of digital […]

What a week! Our team spent 5 days in Orlando last week, representing BigPanda at both Gartner’s IT Operations Strategies and Solutions Summit and ServiceNow’s Knowledge17 conferences. Here’s our wrap up on Gartner IOSS. Hundreds of enterprise IT leaders gathered in at the Hilton Orlando this past week to learn how IT can take advantage […]

Alert Correlation Platform Continues Growth Trajectory Fueled by New Customer Acquisitions and Partnerships PALO ALTO – May 17, 2016 — BigPanda, the Alert Correlation Platform that turns the huge volumes of IT data and alerts into consolidated insights for businesses, today announced that it has added $5 million to its Series B financing round for […]

For many IT and Ops teams, Nagios is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, Nagios gives you near real-time visibility into the inner workings of your IT infrastructure. But on the other hand, Nagios can generate so many alerts that it’s impossible for any single person (or even any team) to keep up.

Anomaly detection for monitoring has been a trending topic in recent years. And while the math behind it is fascinating, too much of the discussion has revolved around histograms, moving averages and standard deviations. More discussion needs to happen around its practical applications, and for that reason, this practical guide to anomaly detection will attempt to provide an actionable overview of current off-the-shelf anomaly detection tools.