Pro Tip: Save Money on Outages by Having a Bot Do the Heavy Lifting
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Covers Microsoft Azure’s use of an intelligent bot to automate impact assessment, mitigation and incident/problem management during outages, replacing slow manual steps to save downtime minutes. Describes the operational strategy, user-driven design approach, guiding principles and lessons learned that produced the projected time and cost savings.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Incidents are going to happen
- 0:44Some incidents run longer!
- 0:54Crush downtime minutes
- 1:54Customer trust
- 2:44Why do some incidents run longer?
- 2:59Happen in the wrong time
- 4:52Manual Tasks
- 6:30Share knowledge
- 6:46What is the health of cluster xyz?
- 6:57How compute is doing in west us?
- 7:50Saved human toil
- 8:48Tip: Try to use Natural Language
- 10:01Automate response activities
- 10:46Impact Assessment
- 12:44Triage and Diagnosis
- 15:33Insights
- 18:24Tip: Bot provide information pro-actively
- 18:49Tip: Make it Intelligent Use Machine Learning
- 19:29Increase the team morale
- 19:49Tip: Need to be extensible
- 20:12Tip: Autonomous Incident Management
- 20:37Bringing the Advanced Computing Community Together Since 1975
