Some of you may be considering embarking on an AIOps journey for your network or IT infrastructure. There are three different paths you can choose from. While all three possibilities are valid, it’s important to note that the convenience and advantages of one or the other will depend on your team’s specific goals and abilities. Understanding how to achieve mass customization in AIOps will help you select the right path.
Let’s explore these options in more detail.
Option 1: Build Your Own Rules (BYOR)
The first path is to use existing commercial AIOps tools that will provide your teams with a basic level of configurability, usually in the form of rules.
- These tools address very common out-of-the-box use cases but are limited by rigid semantic definitions.
- If compatible with your specific use case, you can achieve your goal with just a few glicks in the GUI.
For simplicity’s sake, let’s name this option Build Your Own Rules (BYOR). This approach is low effort but offers limited customization — similar to selecting a basic car model with a few color choices.
Option 2: Build Your Own Platform (BYOP)
The second possibility is to build your platform leveraging open-source technologies and components.
- This path will give you the greatest level of flexibility and customizability for highly specific use cases.
- However, it requires highly skilled teams and is costly and labor-intensive.
- While the open-source ecosystem for data management, analytics, and machine learning is broad, combining and maintaining these elements is complex.
Building your own platform makes sense only if your use case demands a level of custom behavior that no other option can provide.
The ongoing maintenance, operations, and evolution of a custom-built platform will also require considerable resources — and in some cases, commercial licenses for hardened and scalable open-source components.
Option 3: Selector’s Build Your Own Use Case (BYOUC)
So, what is the third option? Selector offers a path to achieve mass customization in AIOps without the cost and complexity of fully custom platforms.
Selector’s data-centric network and IT operations platform provides:
- A declarative architecture that allows you to configure new use cases using a human-friendly YAML modeling language.
- Modular, Lego-like components that you can activate and customize to fit your unique infrastructure.
- Selector handles the heavy lifting — building and integrating components for cost-efficient and scalable delivery.
This approach, Build Your Own Use Case, delivers maximum customization with minimal effort and investment, embodying the principles of mass customization in AIOps.
Applying Mass Customization in AIOps
For most of you familiar with the term mass customization, you know it originates in manufacturing (e.g., the automotive industry).
- The concept combines the personalization of custom-made products with the low unit costs of mass production.
- Applied to AIOps, this means you get flexibility and scalability without the high cost and effort of building a platform from scratch.
If your organization needs a basic observability tool, BYOR might be enough.
If you need ultimate customization regardless of cost, BYOP is your path.
But for most organizations, Selector’s mass customization in AIOps provides the best balance of cost, agility, and control.
Why Mass Customization in AIOps Matters
Every network and IT infrastructure is unique, and this is especially true for larger, more complex deployments.
By leveraging Selector’s mass customization in AIOps, organizations can:
- Balance customizability, cost, and scalability
- Accelerate time to value with pre-integrated, configurable components
- Maintain long-term flexibility without high operational overhead
With the Build Your Own Use Case approach, teams get the behavior they need while minimizing delivery time and recurring costs.