System and application process checks carried out at the start of any business day are an integral part of any IT disaster recovery strategy. They essentially ensure your business runs smoothly but they can be time consuming. Automation can help you save time and increase accuracy.
What is an application start-of-day or health check?
An application health or start-of-day check refers to a systematic process used by IT operations teams to ensure an application and its underlying components are running effectively and are ready to perform the required functions. For enterprises with large IT estates, it’s often a critical part of the overall IT disaster recovery process.
Why should you automate your application checks?
Your start of business day system and application process checks across your estate of IT applications, systems, and networks should not be laborious and time consuming. Removing repetitive and manual efforts through automation can help you to improve outcomes and free up resources. Benefits of an automated application health check include:
Saving IT disaster recovery time and resources
Using Cutover helps you to decrease the number of people needed to complete start-of-day system and application process checks, freeing people up to focus on other strategic activities. As part of our IT disaster recovery solution, Cutover has enabled customers to quadruple efficiency and reduce the number of resources needed for their system process checks by 60% through automation. They have also saved over 90% of execution time, reducing environment restarts from hours to minutes. Resolution time is also decreased through automation, so more time is available to meet resolution service-level agreements.
Increasing application monitoring capacity and accuracy
Cutover can increase your monitoring capacity by up to five times, enabling you to move from doing dozens to hundreds of system and application availability checks in the same amount of time, creating the opportunity to expand on the types of system and application checks you can perform. In addition, you can increase incident prevention as more system checks can be carried out, preventing incidents that would have gone unnoticed before and creating more accuracy in the required steps to make sure systems are running properly throughout the day.
CASE STUDY: Major American bank uses Cutover to automate their start-of-day trading system process checks
A major U.S. Bank successfully addressed its slow, manual pre-trading system checks, a process that previously took hours and risked revenue loss, by implementing Cutover Recover to automate application readiness activities. By integrating Cutover with its monitoring tools, the bank transitioned from requiring many people to manually check systems to using automated runbooks and real-time dashboards overseen by fewer staff. This automation drastically improved efficiency, reducing execution time by over 90% and cutting required resources by 60%. As a result, the bank quadrupled its IT disaster recovery efficiency, significantly increased its monitoring capacity, and executed 30,000 system health checks in the last quarter, enabling quicker incident resolution and prevention.
Get started with Cutover for application start of day process checks
Cutover takes the risk and cost out of your IT disaster recovery processes by enabling better collaboration between teams and automation. Request a demo of Cutover’s automated runbooks today.
An application health or start-of-day check refers to a systematic process used by IT operations teams to ensure an application and its underlying components are running effectively and are ready to perform the required functions. For enterprises with large IT estates, it’s often a critical part of the overall IT disaster recovery process.
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