Monitoring: events correlation on a timeline
Another monitoring feature to put on a wish list.
At Oanda, FxNewsEffects shows a price graph with related news plotted.
That would be cool to have such a feature for monitoring; the graph would be whatever we monitor, and the news would be company-level events (new install, config change, network issues).
It might not be so far ahead:
Vigilo is a complete monitoring system designed for large environments (network and servers) thanks to a fully scalable and modular architecture. Built around Nagios, Vigilo integrates metrology graphs and events correlation. Vigilo also provides new features: notifications dashboard, centralized configuration tool, SNMP traps, etc.
Well, Vigilo is a bit too big for us, and a bit too young (f.e. its web site is only in french for now, but docs are in english).
And what they mention as events correlation is a tool that couples graph to better compare them.
Still, that’s what we might be able to expect in the near future.
And we could start by putting all our issues on the same calendar (releases, config changes, issues) on a tool that has a programmatic interface.