Alerting Best Practices

Summary

Alerts should be actionable, not noisy — every alert that fires should require a real human response, or it trains the team to ignore alerts entirely (alert fatigue).

• 1Audit a hypothetical alert rule and decide if it's genuinely actionable or just noise.
• 2Learn the concept of alert fatigue and why over-alerting is more dangerous than under-alerting.
• 3Practice writing an alert with a clear runbook link explaining what to do when it fires.