AWS re:Invent 2017: Getting the Most Out of Amazon CloudWatch Alerts: Intelligence a (DEM10)

Modern DevOps teams swim in a murky stream of incident monitoring systems. Frequently, disparate systems and organizational silos duplicate alerts and monitoring metrics with confusing communications. The result? An on-call responder faces a pile of unfamiliar alerts, describing unknown conditions, in systems they've never heard of. This problem can be exacerbated by the development velocity enabled by adoption of AWS tooling. What if you could receive alerts with context, clarifying those muddy waters? What if you could adopt a systemic approach to helping responders identify issues? In this session, we explore the VictorOps and CloudWatch integration, with a focus on the VictorOps Incident Automation Engine. This integration enables CloudWatch alerts to include links to relevant runbooks, graphs, and other contextual breadcrumbs to help your teams more quickly identify and resolve alerts. Attendees should have some basic familiarity with CloudWatch, and on-call responsibilities. Session sponsored by VictorOps