Alerting refers to the systematic notification mechanism employed to inform stakeholders of events or conditions within a system that require attention. In a sophisticated digital landscape, the ability to promptly detect and respond to anomalies can be the linchpin of system reliability. Effective alerting not only identifies potential issues but prioritizes them based on their severity, ensuring that critical incidents are addressed with the urgency they warrant.
Popular Solutions
- PagerDuty: Incident management that integrates with various monitoring tools for alerting, on-call scheduling, and incident response.
- Opsgenie (by Atlassian): Alerting and on-call management solution.
- VictorOps (by Splunk): Real-time incident management and response platform.
AWS Solutions
- Amazon CloudWatch Alarms: Enables you to monitor your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can create and manage an alarm to notify you when specific thresholds are breached.
- AWS Health Dashboard: Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact your account.
- AWS Health API: Programmatic access to AWS health events and personalized remediation actions.
- Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS): A fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication.
- AWS Budgets: Provides advanced cloud cost management and alerts. It lets you set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when you exceed the thresholds you’ve defined.