Intellyx BrainBlog for Evolven by Jason English
The biggest obstacle to gaining visibility into potential risks and failures within an enterprise application state isn’t a lack of dashboards. It’s too many dashboards.
No development manager, IT operations leader, or CIO in the world will tell you that they wish they had more Slack alerts and Jira tickets, more data feeds to monitor, more dashboards to check.
Application architectures will only increase in complexity and interconnectedness over time. Simply throttling change is not an option, especially in a scenario like a merger and acquisition, where neither party can afford to cut off their current revenue streams by taking down critical applications.
So how do you gain control over configuration and change risk in complex environments, without throwing sand in the gears? An approach of Vendor-Agnostic Situational Awareness (or, VASA for short) might offer a solution…
What if we can’t break down silos?
Cloud hyperscalers like AWS and Azure offer their own forms of system and cloud usage monitoring and security. They still sell even more bolt-ons for APM, vulnerability scanning, release management, and issue tracking that are affiliated at the account level through their marketplaces.
Companies have also already made huge on-premises investments in datacenters and managed vSphere instances, and bespoke private cloud infrastructures, often supported by service providers, each of which may come equipped with their own measurement and compliance tools to prove they are meeting SLAs.
Below that, there are many more platforms and SPOG (single pane of glass) dashboards that can tell you ‘what’s wrong’ within specific ITSM, SIEM, observability and CI/CD pipelines, and an ecosystem of vendors for each. Take ServiceNow. Or Splunk. Or Datadog. Or Atlassian or GitLab.
Read the entire article on the Evolven site here: https://evolven.com/blog/get-your-head-out-of-the-silo-with-vendor-agnostic-situational-awareness.html
