Effective Alerting in Practice

An Introductory Guide to Creating an Alerting Strategy for DevOps Teams

Published March 2019

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No one ever said that alerting was easy. How do we ensure that alerts are delivered in a timely manner while preventing as many false positives and negatives as possible? Additionally, how do we make sure we’re detecting issues on time and not waking up our users in the middle of the night with false alarms? Alert fatigue is a real thing.

As software development moves faster and faster, alerting becomes an indispensable practice, and more so for modern DevOps teams. Why is this the case?