Random Terms Flashcards

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Above the line / Below the line

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Business Champion / Technical Champion

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APM

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Application Performance Monitoring

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Auto-remediation

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Automated actions to resolve a problem

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BGP

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Border Gateway Protocol

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Bi-directional sync

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Connection where a change in one application reflects in the other

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BPQL

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BigPanda Query Language

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BVA

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Business Value Assessment

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BVD

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Business Value Discussion

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BVDD

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Business Value Deep Dive

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CAB (BigPanda)

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Customer Advisory Board

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CAB (Industry)

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Change Advisory Board - Many large companies will
hold weekly meetings, sometimes more frequently
where they will discuss changes that need to occur
and approve/deny them based on risk, resources,
etc.

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CDI

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Computer Design & Integration

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Check (industry)

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A specific monitor, i.e. “ping”

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Cloudwatch

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AWS App/Infra monitoring tool

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CMDB

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Configuration management database

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Composition tag (BigPanda term)

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Tags that are computed as a function of different tags

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Compression Rate (industry term)

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The consolidation of alerts into an incident

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Correlation Pattern (BigPanda term)

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When alerts are being grouped together by a common field within the alert

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Custom Tags (BigPanda term)

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Tags that exist beyond the scope of BigPanda Tags.
Normalizes alert data from integrated monitoring systems into standard key-value pairs

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Deduplication (BigPanda term)

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Preventing duplicate events from being processed by BigPanda

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EC2

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AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

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ECA (Industry term)

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Event Correlation and Automation

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EKS

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AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service

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Enrichment (BigPanda)

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Incorporate additional relevant info/metadata to incoming alerts to help correlate

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Enrichment Mapping (BigPanda term)

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“vlookup” table that can provide additional info for certain incoming tags

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Envy (BigPanda term)

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Microservice that manages environments and what incidents are part of which environments

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Event (industry term)

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Data sent from an integrated monitoring system about your infrastructure at a specific point in time

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Extraction Tag (BigPanda)

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Tags that are generated by string manipulating other tags

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FCI (Industry term)

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Failed Customer Interactions/Logins

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Flapping (industry term)

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When an alert switches back and forth from one status to another

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FQDM (Industry)

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Fully Qualified Domain Name

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GOC

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Global Operations Center

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Golden Signals (industry)

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Another way of saying “good alerts” which are essentially alerts that are actionable that have good data to determine what will be required to resolve the issue

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34
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HAL (industry term)

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Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer

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35
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Headless

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An application that runs without a user interface
Only accessible using the command line or a different API

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High Signal

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Means high actionability for the operations team
This is as opposed to high noise, where a lot of the events/alerts coming in aren’t actionable

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HPOO / HPSM

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HP Operations Orchestration / HP Service Manager

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IMOC (industry term)

A

Incident Manager on Call

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Incident (industry) vs Incident (BigPanda)

A

What clients call a ticket / Group of alerts that have been correlated or a single alert within the BigPanda console

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Incident Commander/Manager

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A member of the IT or DevOps team who is responsible for managing incident response

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Incident Feed (BigPanda)

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Consolidated view of all active incidents from any integrated monitoring systems

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INOC/IOC

A

Integrated Network Ops Center

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Intercom (BigPanda)

A

Powers the chat menu that appears in the bottom right of the BigPanda UI

44
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Jenkins

A

CI/CD management tool

45
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JIT (Industry)

A

Just in Time provisioning

46
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Keepalive (KA)

A

Signal that prevents a link from being broken

47
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Lambda Function (industry)

A

AWS, like a translator.
Can take what is brought from one field and change, modify, or map to another field

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Logs

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A record of events that occur in an operating system or software

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Maintenance Plan (BigPanda)

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A maintenance plan dictates which alerts will be silenced during a scheduled system maintenance

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Marshaling (BigPanda)

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When multiple events for the same alert/entity are sent to BigPanda, they are marshalled into the sam alert/entity

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MI/MIM/MIR (industry)

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Major Incident / Major Incident Management / Major Incident record

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MOR (industry)

A

Monthly Operations Report

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MTBF (Metrics)

A

Mean Time Between Failures

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MTRS (Metrics)

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Mean Time to Restore Service

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MTT(R/A/D) (Metrics)

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Mean Time to Repair/Resolve/Restore, Assign, Detect

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MTTA (Metrics)

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Mean Time to Acknowledge

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MTTI (Metrics)

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Mean Time to Innocence

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MTTM (Metrics)

A

Mean Time to Mobilize

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MTTx (Metrics)

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Mean Time to ____

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MUDA (industry term)

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Wastefulness, uselessness and futility
Contradicting value-addition

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NetMRI

A

CMDB, provides topology information

62
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Normalizer (BigPanda)

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Tool that helps to standardize incoming alerts from common sources

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NTP (Industry)

A

Network Time Protocol

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P0-P5

A

Priority Levels 0-5

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Payload (industry)

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The actual information or message in transmitted data, as opposed to automatically generated metadata

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PBO (Sales)

A

Positive Business Outcomes

67
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Phoenix Project

A

Book based upon an automotive parts manufacturer and retails which are challenged with BigPanda value drivers

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Pingdom

A

Solarwinds monitoring offering

69
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Postman

A

API management tool

70
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PRTG

A

Paessler, a network monitoring solution

71
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RBAC

A

Role Based Access Control

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RCC/RCA

A

Root Cause Changes/Root Cause Analysis

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Reserved Word (BigPanda)

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A tag that cannot be updated or changed by a user or admin

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RTM (BigPanda)

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Realtime Topology Mesh

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Runbook (Industry)

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List of steps to be taken to resolve or mitigate a certain category of incident

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SCOM

A

System Center Ops Manager (Microsoft product)

77
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ServiceNow (SNOW)

A

Ticketing/ITSM tool

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SNMP

A

Simple Network Management Protocol

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Snooze (BigPanda)

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Delaying an alert for a certain period until it’s reactivated

80
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SQS

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AWS Simple Queue Service that supports hosting a queue of messages from a variety of distributed services

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SWAG (Industry term)

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Scientific Wild-Ass Guess

82
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Synthetic Alerts (Industry)

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Synthetic alert monitors operate on a three-strike basis, registering a failure only after three monitor attempts from a single location return an error

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TDD (Sales)

A

Technical Deep Dive

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TED (Sales)

A

Tell, Explain, Describe (why?)

85
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Throttler (BigPanda)

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A service to help protect the BigPanda pipeline from abnormal spikes in data

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Timber (industry)

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Transforms raw log data from Kafka, etc by structuring, sampling, and aggregating to make ready for consumption in S3, Kibana, etc

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TOC (Industry)

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Technical Operations Center

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Topology (Industry)

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The way in which constituent parts of a computer network are interrelated or arranged

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Topology (BigPanda)

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Topology integrations ingest data from configuration management, cloud and virtualization management, service discovery, APM, and CMDB tools for enriching alerts in BigPanda