Umbrella system

Versio.io as your single pane of glass for your third-party systems

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Modern IT landscapes are hybrid and distributed, as well as being highly complex. This requires the use of numerous specialised tools for areas such as security, governance and monitoring. However, this diversity often results in isolated data silos. Each system generates its own events and reports individual violations, forcing your teams to navigate a confusing array of different dashboards and putting critical alerts at risk of being overlooked.

Versio.io solves this problem by acting as an umbrella system. It does this by collecting and consolidating events, violations and status objects from all third-party applications centrally. Instead of fragmented, individual views, it finally provides all relevant information at a glance in a single dashboard.

What is an "umbrella system"?

An umbrella system, often referred to as a "manager of managers" (MoM), is a higher-level platform that serves as a uniform integration and management layer.

Like an umbrella, it spans existing technologies and monitoring systems. It collects, aggregates and correlates data streams from all sources and provides a holistic view of infrastructure, services and end devices.

The aim is to control complex IT services and their infrastructure. Without centralised alarm management and a unified view, the operation of critical services becomes chaotic.

How Versio.io functions as an intelligent umbrella platform

Versio.io serves as a central platform for recording, analysing and controlling all technical events, transforming data collections into an intelligent management tool:

Centralised repository from all sources

The foundation is the centralised collection of events from every source: IT landscape, OT/IoT devices and third-party applications. Versio.io uses integrations such as:

SNMP traps (network devices)
Syslog (hosts, networks)
OPC UA & MQTT (OT/IoT devices)
Generic connections (systems such as Kubernetes, VMware, Dynatrace and many more)

Taming event storms: automatic deduplication

Event storms are every operations team's worst nightmare: a single technical error can trigger hundreds of redundant alerts in an instant, obscuring important information. Versio.io mitigates this issue by using intelligent deduplication to instantly recognise recurring patterns and automatically group identical messages.

Rather than receiving hundreds of individual alerts, your employees will only see a single, meaningful event with a counter showing how frequently it has occurred. This drastically reduces monitoring noise, prevents "alert fatigue" and ensures that the actual cause of a problem remains immediately visible, without getting lost in the chaos.

Everything at a glance: The Event Details

Versio.io puts an end to dashboard hopping and offers a unified analysis view instead of dozens of dashboards. It intelligently aggregates all data in a coherent interface and provides a quick overview of risks and criticality. A visualisation of the root cause shows users:

Who triggered the event and which protocol/gateway was used.
How the event is assessed (e.g. severity, classification) and its classification in the risk matrix.
The specific event message.
In addition, the platform links relevant events directly to the configuration element in the CMDB, if available.

Context instead of chaos: automatic correlation and evaluation

The decisive added value: incoming events are automatically correlated with the asset and configuration elements from the CMDB. The "digital twin" based correlation engine immediately enriches each event with business context (services, SLAs, protection requirements).

The platform uses the protection requirements of the assets to evaluate their criticality, enabling intelligent prioritisation. An alarm on a test system is thus treated differently than one on a critical production server.

True single pane of glass: detailed analysis

Versio.io broadens the operational perspective by offering comprehensive analysis options that render historical data usable. The integrated Event Insights Dashboard aggregates and processes events from a defined time period so they automatically fall into user-friendly categories, such as 'What are the most critical events?' or 'Which event storms occurred?'.

This intelligent organisation makes daily analysis straightforward, as users are presented with recognisable patterns and focal points instead of raw data.

Flexible notifications and forwarding

Versio.io offers the option of forwarding internally generated and assessed events to third-party solutions. Based on the event attributes (such as severity, source or protection requirements), detailed rules can be configured to define specific forwarding options. This ensures that the right teams are notified via the channels they already use.

Chat and email solutions - Slack, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, Email, and Telegram
Incident ticket solutions - ServiceNow, TopDesk, Jira, GitLab, and GitHub
Others - Dynatrace, Generic Webhook, and more