Aaron Rimel

Principal Product Manager, Observability and Management

Recent Blogs

Managing Alarms at Scale with Monitoring Templates in OCI Stack ...

Managing individual alarms across an enterprise can be time-consuming and error prone. OCI Stack Monitoring simplifies this process with Monitoring Templates, allowing you to create all alarms for an application such as E-Business Suite or an entire fleet of hosts within a single UI. These templates save time and ensure consistency across large-scale environments. Monitoring Templates automatically apply to newly created resources, this reduces manual steps that can easily be missed.

GPU Infrastructure and workload monitoring with OCI Stack Monitoring

We're excited to introduce the latest release of Stack Monitoring which now provides essential monitoring and alarm management for GPU infrastructure and their workloads. This new feature is designed to provide turnkey monitoring for your GPU fleet allowing you to focus on your GenAI projects instead of building monitoring UIs. Rich alarm management enables you to easily set up alarms at scale and manage these across the fleet.

OCI Stack Monitoring Retrospect – 2024 was a big release year!

As we prepare for many exciting new features to be released in early 2025, the Stack Monitoring team is thrilled to share an update on the incredible progress that has been driving our mission to enhance observability and monitoring capabilities. We've been hard at work, releasing a plethora of new features and support for new resource types to empower our users and ensure seamless Stack Monitoring. Here's a rundown of the Top 12 exciting developments that took place in 2024.

Prevent alarm noise with topology-aware Maintenance Windows

Simplify your maintenance activities with topology-aware Maintenance Windows in Stack Monitoring. When performing maintenance activities on resources, it is desirable to suppress alarm notifications on these resources to prevent alarm noise. Maintenance Windows can suppress alarm notifications for an entire fleet of hosts and all resources on those hosts, or suppress all alarm notifications for an entire application stack with only a few clicks.

In one click, OCI Stack Monitoring automatically monitors all hosts

In one click, OCI Stack Monitoring automatically monitors all hosts in a compartment whether they are running in OCI, on-premises, or another cloud provider using the new host auto-promotion UI.  When an agent is deployed on a host, it becomes available for promotion, thus enabling host monitoring. In this release, automating the promotion on all hosts is done with a single-click UI.

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