Noise Maintenance

Noise maintenance" refers to the ongoing process of managing and reducing the amount of irrelevant or non-actionable events, alerts, or data generated by the monitoring and detection systems.

Noise, in this context, represents information that does not contribute to meaningful insights or indicate significant issues. Reducing noise is crucial for optimizing the efficiency of actionable detection, analysis, and resolution.

“Noise Maintenance Window" refers to a specific time or scheduled period during which fine-tuning activities are performed to manage and reduce the noise generated by the monitoring and alerting systems.

This window allows IT teams to proactively address issues related to false positives, irrelevant alerts, or unnecessary noise in the event data.

This section enables user to define rules for filtering out events data at the beginning of event data processing. User can perform actions based on their role.

  1. Click the customer onboard section, for customers click on customer action edit section. Click on the Noise/Maintenance window page, Records for the selected customer will be displayed in the grid view as shown.
    Figure 1. Noise Maintenance Page
  2. User can perform the following actions:
    • Add new
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Apply Filter
Note:
Noise Rules can be created from the Entity screen as well. Refer to the Entity section. Those rules appear prefixed with the action i.e., whether it’s a Noise or a Maintenance configuration followed with the Entity name, user can create rules based on entity id only. In the Noise screen grid user can also see the rules that are configured from Entity screen and the Noise Maintenance screen.