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What makes a good alert in an SRE context? How do you avoid alert fatigue while ensuring critical issues are caught?

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Good alerting is one of the most impactful things an SRE team can get right because bad alerting leads to alert fatigue, where on-call engineers start ignoring or dismissing alerts, eventually missing a real incident. Every alert should demand attention and enable action.

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