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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to AIOps

  • Defining AIOps and its significance
  • AIOps architecture and essential components

Gathering and Standardising Operational Data

  • Categories of observability data: metrics, logs, and traces
  • Ingesting data from diverse sources (servers, containers, cloud)
  • Employing agents and exporters (Prometheus, Beats, Fluentd)

Data Correlation and Anomaly Detection

  • Time series correlation and statistical techniques
  • Deploying ML models for anomaly detection
  • Identifying incidents across distributed systems

Alerting and Noise Mitigation

  • Crafting intelligent alert rules and thresholds
  • Suppression, deduplication, and alert grouping
  • Integration with Alertmanager, Slack, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie

Root Cause Analysis and Visualisation

  • Leveraging dashboards to visualise metrics and spot trends
  • Investigating events and timelines for RCA
  • Tracking issues across layers using distributed tracing tools

Automation and Remediation

  • Activating automated scripts or workflows based on incidents
  • Integration with ITSM systems (ServiceNow, Jira)
  • Use cases: self-healing, scaling, and traffic rerouting

Open Source and Commercial AIOps Platforms

  • Overview of tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Moogsoft, Dynatrace
  • Criteria for assessing and selecting an AIOps platform
  • Demonstration and hands-on practice with a chosen stack

Summary and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of IT operations and system monitoring concepts
  • Practical experience with monitoring tools or dashboards
  • Familiarity with standard log and metric formats

Audience

  • Operations teams accountable for infrastructure and applications
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
  • IT monitoring and observability teams

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