Navigate seamlessly with the Project Switcher dropdown
In your life as a DevOps engineer, your time is spread across multiple areas of an organization. In a single day, you may be called to answer questions from your marketing team, provide cost justification to accounting, and review unexpected outages for your engineering team. The ability to navigate quickly to any given project saves you time—and sanity. In Ops Desk, the Project Switcher dropdown is easily accessible within the secondary left-hand navigation bar and utilizes type-ahead search for those who don’t want to use a mouse. There is no need to back out to a project discovery page.
Incident, event and instance data export
When working with other stakeholders in your organization, questions will no doubt arise about topics including:
- How many incidents did we have last month?
- How many incidents were caused by a specific issue or party?
- How many instances do we currently have running?
All these questions can be answered by navigating through Ops Desk itself, but you can also easily gather data for all of them at once and provide actual data to stakeholders via a data export. Better yet, this becomes a repeatable task to save you time when the same or similar questions arise in the future.
Date filtering for incidents and events
When you are looking for a specific issue that has occurred in your cloud, the brute-force "when something happened" clue is sometimes the only thing you have at the start of your investigation. Our date-filtering capability allows you to quickly narrow down incidents and events that occurred within a given timeframe to help pinpoint the issue in question.
Save time with the AWS Console Login module
To any engineer who has their work spread out across multiple clients and accounts, there is always the inconvenience of having to remember different credentials in order to log into and out of each respective account. Ops Desk's AWS Console Login module allows you to quickly find your desired AWS account for streamlined access without having to remember and type in each new passphrase.
Adding metadata tags for incidents
One major feature that we think DevOps teams will love is the ability to add metadata to incidents. You can add data in three key areas:
- You can define Who was the cause of the incident.
- You can define What was the cause of the incident.
- You can clearly identify the root cause of the incident within the notes.
The Who and What are both items on which you can filter when searching for incident details in the future.
Ability to exclude some outages from uptime metric reporting
Automatic uptime calculation is amazing, and not having to manually calculate your uptime at the end of each month is even more amazing; however, in some of those automatic calculations, there is no way to manually correct erroneous outage reports (some outage times may be reported in error, for example, or are not true outages, but they still show up on your uptime report). For those with appropriate admin rights, Ops Desk gives you the ability to exclude specific outages from your uptime report to make sure your reporting accurately reflects actual performance.
Show/hide feature of the left nav bar on incidents
With so many requests, along with the sheer amount of information competing for space on your screen, getting down to the nitty-gritty detail of any given incident or outage can be a difficult task. Ops Desk allows users to slide away the navigation bar when reviewing incident details, giving you more work space to review what has happened and add notes, enabling you to document the resolution and apply the fix.
Dark Mode
DevOps engineers have to spend a large portion of their work day looking at a computer screen. This amount of screentime can be taxing on your eyes. Ops Desk has a dark mode for users to cater to those with sensitive eyes—or to anyone who simply likes how it looks.
