My Philosophy on Alerting¶
Ewaschuk, R. (2016). My Philosophy on Alerting. Site Reliability Engineering.
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- Over time the system changed (autoscaling now absorbs the load), so the outcome that originally justified the action — preventing an incident — has been devalued, yet the alert keeps firing: the prime's persistence-under-devaluation invariant, here producing alert fatigue.
This sourceArgues that every page must be urgent and actionable; non-actionable or stale alerts firing after the underlying condition changed cause alert fatigue.
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The chapter supports that frequent, non-urgent pages cause fatigue and ignored alerts, but not the autoscaling scenario or the devalued-outcome framing.
“When pages occur too frequently, employees second-guess, skim, or even ignore incoming alerts, sometimes even ignoring a "real" page that’s masked by the noise.”
- Over time the system changed (autoscaling now absorbs the load), so the outcome that originally justified the action — preventing an incident — has been devalued, yet the alert keeps firing: the prime's persistence-under-devaluation invariant, here producing alert fatigue.
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