Random Terms Flashcards
Above the line / Below the line
Business Champion / Technical Champion
APM
Application Performance Monitoring
Auto-remediation
Automated actions to resolve a problem
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
Bi-directional sync
Connection where a change in one application reflects in the other
BPQL
BigPanda Query Language
BVA
Business Value Assessment
BVD
Business Value Discussion
BVDD
Business Value Deep Dive
CAB (BigPanda)
Customer Advisory Board
CAB (Industry)
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.
CDI
Computer Design & Integration
Check (industry)
A specific monitor, i.e. “ping”
Cloudwatch
AWS App/Infra monitoring tool
CMDB
Configuration management database
Composition tag (BigPanda term)
Tags that are computed as a function of different tags
Compression Rate (industry term)
The consolidation of alerts into an incident
Correlation Pattern (BigPanda term)
When alerts are being grouped together by a common field within the alert
Custom Tags (BigPanda term)
Tags that exist beyond the scope of BigPanda Tags.
Normalizes alert data from integrated monitoring systems into standard key-value pairs
Deduplication (BigPanda term)
Preventing duplicate events from being processed by BigPanda
EC2
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud
ECA (Industry term)
Event Correlation and Automation
EKS
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
Enrichment (BigPanda)
Incorporate additional relevant info/metadata to incoming alerts to help correlate
Enrichment Mapping (BigPanda term)
“vlookup” table that can provide additional info for certain incoming tags
Envy (BigPanda term)
Microservice that manages environments and what incidents are part of which environments
Event (industry term)
Data sent from an integrated monitoring system about your infrastructure at a specific point in time
Extraction Tag (BigPanda)
Tags that are generated by string manipulating other tags
FCI (Industry term)
Failed Customer Interactions/Logins
Flapping (industry term)
When an alert switches back and forth from one status to another
FQDM (Industry)
Fully Qualified Domain Name
GOC
Global Operations Center
Golden Signals (industry)
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
HAL (industry term)
Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer
Headless
An application that runs without a user interface
Only accessible using the command line or a different API