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The Derdack SIGNL4 blog delivers expert insights and tips on maximizing SIGNL4 for efficient alerting, team collaboration, and incident management.
Emergency Notifications for Patient Bedside Monitoring using mobile Apps
Modern alerting systems based on mobile apps can achieve significant efficiency gains in healthcare and reduce the working pressure on nursing staff. Here we describe how such a solution is used for patient and bedside monitoring. Challenges in patient bedside...
Mobile Alerting complements SCADA systems in the Utilities Sector
Utilities companies represent a particular challenge for modern alarm solutions complementing SCADA systems. Due to the decentralised distribution of installations and plants in rural and urban areas, operation, maintenance and repair are already associated with...
Machine Breakdown Maintenance Call using the AWS IoT Button
Urgent breakdown maintenance calls are a common scenario on a shop floor, e.g. in manufacturing or logistics. Response is a critical matter as equipment breakdowns bring your operations to a grinding halt. When a machine breaks down or malfunctions, a maintenance...
AWS CloudWatch Alarms to your mobile phone during after-business hours
If you are using AWS CloudWatch for monitoring your AWS assets 24/7, an effective routing of alarms to IT personnel during after-business-hours is essential for a swift handling of any problems and incidents occurring any given time of the day. This post explains how...
How reliably is your IT team notified when your website is down?
Nowadays most IT admins will get an email if their website monitoring solution detects a health issue or a website down. Maybe your entire team gets an email. But how likely are you to check your inbox every minute. And don't you want share on-call duty across your...
Azure Application Insights
Are you using Azure Application Insights for health monitoring of your website or web app? If so, I bet you have alerts setup to get notified in case of service health issues. By default, you or your whole team will get an email. But how do you know who took...
SCOM – Mobile Alert Notifications via mobile app, text and voice calls
SIGNL4 provides a convenient, out-of-the-box solution to send mobile SCOM alerts to your ops teams. With SIGNL4 you can build subject expert teams and send SCOM alerts to team members on duty. With the SIGNL4 mobile app, teams easily check-in and check-out to receive...
Mobile alerts for Cumulocity-managed IoT devices
IoT platforms such as Cumulocity by Software AG are a crucial part in a proper "Industry 4.0" implementation. The Deutsche Telekom AG is using Cumulocity for their new IoT products like "Predictive Maintenance" and the "Cloud der Dinge Starterkit". They are used to...
DevOps – Boost Responsiveness with Alerts
The key to efficient devops procedures lies in responsiveness, clear responsibility and incident ownership. Alerts and notifications are effective tools to increase these key factors. In today's agile environments with a demanding customer landscape, a rapid response...
C# code for the SIGNL4 webhook
When I started with my first Raspberry mini computer, I selected Windows 10 IoT Core as the operating system. This allowed for using Visual Studio and C#. It is not that difficult to call a webhook from your C# code, though a couple of pitfalls await you when your...
Azure Monitor
SIGNL4 provides persistent and real-time alert notifications to your admin team. Sending alert notifications exclusively to members on duty reduces response times, notification noise and fatigue. Ownership of alerts improves accountability and ensures real-time...
Splunk
There is no easier way to receive mobile alert notifications from Splunk than using SIGNL4, a lightweight notification app for powerful mobile alerting and alert management. Update: There is now a Splunkbase SIGNL4 app available. Here is video how it works. Splunk...
IT Monitoring and Operations
Situation Knowing about IT incidents as fast as possible is key in IT Operations Management to ensure maximum IT uptime. Critical incidents or IT problems are often communicated by email only, typically as a broadcast to the complete team. This leads to confusion...
Alert Notifications for Maintenance Teams
Maintenance of machines is an incredibly important task. And it is important to fix a machine before it completely fails. Once an issue is detected is important to communicate as reliably and quickly as possible to the right engineer. Ideally, the machine is connected...