The Service Operations Workspace ITOM Apps app is a transformative addition to the AIOps product in ServiceNow, revolutionizing the entire ITOM (IT Operations Management) Health user experience. This app introduces powerful capabilities, namely the Express List, Integration Launchpad, Alert Automation, and AIOps Dashboards, each delivering unique value, but when combined, they elevate the user experience to a whole new level.
- Express List: The Express List is a game-changer for alert management. It provides a consolidated platform where users can efficiently triage, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and remediate alerts seamlessly. With real-time updates, dynamic filtering, and an intuitive preview pane, users can stay on top of their alert workflows and take immediate action with unparalleled ease and speed.
- Integration Launchpad: With the Integration Launchpad, users gain access to a hub of seamless connections to various external tools and services. It is also simplifying the onboarding of new data sources. This simplifies the integration process, enabling users to effortlessly leverage their existing ITOM ecosystem within the ServiceNow platform. The Integration Launchpad streamlines data exchange and improves cross-platform collaboration, enhancing efficiency and productivity across the board.
- Alert Automation: Alert Automation within the Service Operations Workspace empowers organizations to handle rising alert volumes and complexity in IT infrastructures effectively. Automation enhances alert resolution times, service reliability, and better scales staff resources. These automations cater to both centralized administrators and distributed teams, enabling qualified teams to independently create and manage their automations. For users familiar with our classic experience, Alert Automation provides a simplified UI, a no-code builder, and enhanced team support for event rules, tag-based clustering, and alert management rules.
- AIOps Dashboards: The AIOps Dashboards offer comprehensive visualizations of critical operational data and insights. Users can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), track service health, and gain valuable context on the overall IT environment. These customizable dashboards empower users with actionable insights, facilitating data-driven decision-making and ensuring proactive responses to potential issues.
When used in tandem, the Express List, Integration Launchpad, and AIOps Dashboards create a unified, seamless, and efficient user experience. The revamped ITOM Health interface empowers IT teams to swiftly identify and resolve alerts, optimize performance, and enhance overall operational efficiency. By providing a consolidated platform for alert management, simplifying integrations, and offering data-rich dashboards, the AIOps Experience app truly takes ServiceNow's AIOps product to a new level, helping organizations achieve greater operational excellence and deliver exceptional IT services.
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The key features of each component in the Service Operations Workspace app:
- Express List:
- Real-time Updates: A live and continuously updated list of alerts ensures users have access to the latest data and insights.
- Triage and RCA: Enables users to efficiently triage alerts and conduct root cause analysis to identify the underlying issues quickly.
- Remediation Actions: Integrated remediation capabilities allow users to take immediate action to resolve alerts directly from the list.
- Dynamic Filtering: Supports custom filters to focus on specific types of alerts based on priority, severity, source, etc.
- Preview Pane: Provides a snapshot of each alert's essential details, allowing users to quickly understand the nature of the issue without opening a separate page.
- Alert Assist - Uses Now Assist to simplify alerts, generates concise alert descriptions, and provides additional technical insights to aid in swift and effective alert resolution.
- Manage views - Centralized management of predefined views assigned to users and user groups.
- Link View - Link View provides visualization of tag-based alert groups, CMDB groups and rule-based groups. Each alert carries a multitude of attributes, and Link View acts as a cohesive force, illuminating and linking these attributes to shed light on shared elements across different alerts, offering valuable insights into potential root causes.
- Alert group timeline - Visual timeline of alerts in the group helps the user to understand the chain of events in the context of the group.
- Integration Launchpad:
- Seamless Connections: Serves as a central hub for connecting to various external tools and services within the ITOM ecosystem.
- Simplified Integrations: Streamlines the integration process, making it easier for users to leverage their existing tools within the ServiceNow platform.
- Integrating new custom sources: Use a simplified and intuitive UI to onboard new data sources when connectors are not available.
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Alert Automation:
- Ignore Automation: Reduces false-positive alerts and manages alert fatigue by filtering noisy notifications, allowing teams to focus on critical issues.
- Enrich Automation: Enhances raw alerts with contextual information, transforming them into a standard format for better filtering, automated grouping, and response.
- Group Automation: Groups related alerts into a single primary alert to reduce noise and speed up root-cause analysis.
- Respond Automation: Automatically notifies stakeholders, escalates as needed, and runs remediation actions. Integrates with third-party systems for cases, notifications, or remediation.
- AIOps Dashboards:
- Comprehensive Visualizations: Offers rich and interactive visual representations of critical operational data and insights.
- KPI Monitoring: Users can monitor key performance indicators, service health metrics, and other important performance data at a glance.
- Data-driven Decision Making: Empowers users with actionable insights derived from data analysis, facilitating better decision-making processes.
- Customizable Dashboards: Users can tailor the dashboards to their specific needs, focusing on the metrics and information most relevant to their roles.
When used together, the Express List, Integration Launchpad, and AIOps Dashboards create a cohesive and powerful user experience, providing IT teams with a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently manage and optimize their operations. The combined features not only enhance alert management but also promote seamless integrations and data-driven decision-making, making the AIOps Experience app a valuable asset for organizations striving for operational excellence.
- Express List:
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- Express List Data Source icons improvements
- Adding new icons for HLA alerts and displaying all source icons for Alert Groups on the Express List.
Also, for Alert groups, the Preview Panel Alert card displays the source icon for each alert.
- Adding new icons for HLA alerts and displaying all source icons for Alert Groups on the Express List.
- Enhancements in the integration launchpad for HLA data inputs and the Overview page:
- Link out to Log Viewer in Context
- Overview page - Banner adjustment
- New Log Analytics push integration for REST API data input
- Log Analytics integration for Kafka data input
- AWS Firehose Integration for Log Analytics
- New integration for Azure Log Analytics data input
- New integration for Splunk data input in the integration launchpad
- Express List Data Source icons improvements
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- Accessibility enhancements on the Service Dashboard
- Required plugins and products:
- Event Management