The traditional IT operations workflow has always relied on a process and procedure cycle that ultimately requires manual intervention to restore production services and resolve an active incident. In this session, presented by Nick Thompson from WWT, we explored how the combination of Event-Driven Ansible, application telemetry, and a solid foundation of observability can be combined to deliver the ultimate in closed-loop automation to reduce incidents and after-hours troubleshooting.

The Riverbed Observability and Optimization Platform helps seamlessly connect all your observability data to prevent, identify, and resolve complex issues faster

WWT's Anshul Chaturvedi reviews the important decision to "build" or buy" on the AIOps journey and WWT's approach for this transformation.

Matt Caminiti presented this session at Automation.Day STL 2024, where we explored how Dynatrace's advanced workflow automation and platform engineering capabilities can significantly enhance software development and operational processes.

WWT's Mike Cervasio reviews issues relating to Observability and AIOps. Mike discusses the transformational value of AIOps solutions, WWT's vision for AIOps, the challenges that companies face in AIOps and AIOps business outcomes.

Since 1987, CiscoLive has been the premiere event for networking education, collaboration, and fun. Las Vegas 2023 brought 19,600 attendees to the Mandalay Bay Conference Center and adjacent properties. To support the event, the CiscoLive team has a few days to provision 2300 wireless access points, over 650 switches, and a mobile data center. This session was a behind-the-scenes look at the automation and network monitoring done to support such a significant event in a short amount of time. In this session, we heard about open-source solutions like InfluxDB and Grafana and the importance of standardized management interfaces like gRPC and NETCONF/YANG.

Whether you're looking for a solution to optimize your incident management or enhance your current ITSM and observability tools, AIOps can help you improve processes and outcomes.

AI Canvas is Cisco's first Generative UI for cross-domain IT-a shared, intelligent workspace that brings real-time telemetry, AI insights, and team collaboration into one view.

In this session presented by Daniel Hertzberg from Arista Networks, we provided an in-depth explanation of network monitoring and analytics with streaming telemetry, leveraging the latest high-performance gRPC interface, gNMI. We covered all the gRPC fundamentals, as well as gave an introduction to gNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface) with its RPCs and interacting with network devices for real-world use cases for streaming telemetry. We discovered how streaming telemetry revolutionized network monitoring by providing real-time insights into network performance and health. We learned about YANG (Yet Another Next Generation) data modeling language and how it facilitated standardized network management. We also explored OpenConfig, a community-driven effort to standardize network device configuration and telemetry using YANG models. By the end of this session, network operators found great use cases for removing a lot of their polling/SNMP infrastructure for modern network tools like the TIG stack and Prometheus.

SuzieQ is the first open-source, multi-vendor network observability platform application. It is both a framework and an application using that framework that is focused on improving your understanding of your network. In this session, Dinesh Dutt of Stardust Systems, the creators of the SuzieQ Project, provided an overview of SuzieQ and its capabilities.

IBM's AIOps Observability Portfolio: Turbonomic, Instana, & SevOne

As enterprises increasingly adopt cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, traditional network architectures are proving inadequate to support the distributed nature of modern work environments. Join WWT Senior Vice President Greg Schoeny and Neil Anderson, who leads WWT's cloud and infrastructure practice, as they talk about the transformative impact of cloud-based applications and distributed workforces on service provider network architectures. Greg and Neil also discuss how service providers can adapt to these changes to ensure high-performance, secure connectivity for all users, devices, and applications, regardless of their location.